On Dec 5, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > I must say I don't. The Neogia team is. And they are an important part of the > OFBiz ecosystem. Their efforts should not be neglected. Erwan is no longer > part of the Neogia team but he is still in contact with them. At least > AFAIK...
This is an interesting point: the Neogia team (company? community?) is important as any other contributor; however they are a separate ecosystem that a long time ago decided to split from OFBiz and develop their own software, best practices, tools etc.. at the point that now the OFBiz community and the Neogia community may have choosen quite different tools and best practices; of course the members of the Neogia team think that what they do is the right way and the same happens to the members of the OFBiz community; if the Neogia community now wants to share some of their tools or best practices they can offer them, but we, as the OFBiz community, should not feel any pressure to endorse them; and the fact that all the members of the Neogia team agree that the tools are important is irrelevant (of course they do, if not they would have changed them). All that said, I want to clarify that I am not feeling any pressure and no one at Neogia tried to put pressure on me so I am good and I appreciate their efforts in sharing with us what they are doing; in the same time I will not feel bad if I don't think they are a good fit for the OFBiz project (and the fact that I, or we, and them could be in disagreement on some topics is quite natural as we come from two different ecosystems that voluntarily separated from each other). Kind regards, Jacopo
