Re: svn commit: r597479 - /ofbiz/trunk/applications/party/entitydef/entitymodel.xml

Posted by David E Jones on Nov 23, 2007; 7:46am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Re-svn-commit-r597479-ofbiz-trunk-applications-party-entitydef-entitymodel-xml-tp185726p185730.html


I hope I don't burst any bubbles... but this specific paragraph has a  
couple of real doosies (IMO of course):


On Nov 22, 2007, at 10:23 PM, skip@thedevers wrote:

> I was also trying to point out that "obvious" is always relative to
> experience and education.

To some extend, yes, but I think you gave examples of where this is  
not the case. The real point of this was the informational content, ie  
the lack of redundancy and other information theory 101 types of  
things (well, that certainly wasn't a 101 class when I took it, but  
this part of it is a basic concept).

> I promise you that over the life of Ofbiz
> (assuming that it becomes as successful as I think it will), the  
> majority of
> those who write code for it will have zero business experience and  
> little to
> no database experience.

This may very well be the case, of course all such people are welcome  
in the OFBiz world. However (and this might be the big bubble bursting  
part...), if such people think they can contribute over a reasonable  
scope and period of time they will HAVE to learn about such things.  
These are things that are not made up in OFBiz, but rather things in  
the world that OFBiz uses (ie OFBiz is a consumer or carrier of the  
concepts not the producer).

I'm guessing you get this and the above was just a partial thought...  
if so forgive me for taking your thought and walking with it for a bit.

-David