I think this discussion is unnecessary. Ruth is an audience. I guess she wants to see exciting shows, fighting, blooding.
Unfortunately, the open source game is not that exciting for end users. Why OFBiz will win this game? Very simple, making all the talents to develop in one location is much expensive than OFBiz current development model. 在 2010-02-24三的 13:10 -0700，David E Jones写道： > On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: > > > I'm replying to the list in general regarding the misrepresentations and > > outright lies in this reply - not Ruth personally... > > > > Ruth Hoffman wrote: > >> Secondly, OFBiz will never survive, let alone grow, if there are no new > >> adopters (end-users, service providers or whatever you want to call them). > >> I further argue that the project won't get any new adopters by sticking > >> its collective head in the sand and ignoring real world issues like > >> release management, quality control and my favorite, documentation and > >> training. > > > > Before anyone on the list believes any of this nonsense, I would encourage > > you to do a quick review of recent mailing list activity, the commit logs, > > and Jira. > > > > A review of the user mailing list will show that new adopters arrive on > > this list regularly. Release management follows a well documented plan and > > that plan has been followed by the developer community. The commit logs > > will show tremendous activity in the area of quality control (unit tests). > > A review of Jira will show that bug reports are reviewed and fixed > > regularly. There is a wealth of documentation on the Wiki, and in video and > > book form. > > > > In summary, the project continues to grow and improve. No one has their > > head stuck in the sand. Anyone who says otherwise is simply ignoring the > > facts. > > Thank you for a voice of reason Adrian. > > Usually when people ignore the facts and make assertions otherwise, > especially when done vehemently and repeatedly, there is something they are > trying to get other people to believe, and along with that something they > think people will do if they believe it. > > What I'm wondering about Ruth's comments over recent weeks is: > > 1. What is it that Ruth wants us to believe? > 2. What is it that Ruth wants us to do based on that belief? > > Ruth: could you help us out here? > > Otherwise, I guess we can start guessing... > > -David >
