On Apr 29, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Ron Wheeler <rwhee...@artifact-software.com> wrote:
> What is the reason not to absorb Moqui or a fork of Moqui into OFBiz if we > decide to replace the existing framework with Moqui. It could be done but with some concerns: * incorporating an external codebase requires some paperwork, if not a formal incubation process * forking Moqui may not be beneficial for the Moqui project that is growing and gaining momentum now; it could add confusion and over time incompatibilities between the forks * for historical reasons it may not be a wise choice: within *this* community and with the same persons we have now, David was unable to convince people about his new ideas; these new ideas are now implemented in Moqui; do the OFBiz people clearly understand the differences now and recognize that David was right? or are we just trying to grab the Moqui code and change it in the way that some of us think is right? I would like to hear, form the core committers of OFBiz, more about what they know and think about Moqui, and what are their plans about the integration... we may discover that there is not a shared plan and everyone thinks differently > > Is there a reason to have Moqui as a separate Apache project? Seems like > extra overhead for no advantage. This approach would indeed solve most of the issues I mentioned above (about the fork) but we have to consider the following: * the current OFBiz framework is a huge codebase that is an asset for the OFBiz project: as a community we have to protect this asset unless we are sure that an external solution (Moqui binaries) already provides what we need; but this is an important decision because after that OFBiz will depend on the Moqui community/project * ideally, we should have more connections between Moqui and OFBiz communities, apart from David; in this way it will be easier to exchange requirements, plans etc... but I am not sure, again for historical reasons, how many of us would be a good fit for the Moqui community The two options mentioned above are both viable but there are pros and cons that need to be carefully evaluated and understood by everyone in the community before taking a decision for the greater good of the project (OFBiz, but also Moqui). Jacopo
