Hi, Very interesting topic, btw. And I would like to hear more opinions about that, especially from those, which do support for several (or much more) shops and need to keep that up-to-date (means invest lot of time and money for updating to latest version). So - do you prefer to invest more into updates between Patches, but by doing that also automatically get more stable shop, or description about fixes in bugtrack comments are enough for you and you can choose which one of those to apply. From our side it also hard to keep that line, esp. after release of new versions (Minor or Major - x.y.0). Anyway, up until now we had the goal to keep the Patches as simple to update as possible, in perfect case - just copy the changed source code files over existing ones and that's all. Also we assume, that each (even simple) fix in templates is very expensive to apply in end-shop because you need to do that manually. And if you need to update tens of shops - that takes time...
So we are interested in your opinion about that, to know if we are wrong in assuming some part. Best regards, Dainius Bigelis -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Zunderer Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 5:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [oxid-dev-general] Template Changes in Minor Versions Hi all, while answering a forum post i stumbled across this bug: https://bugs.oxid-esales.com/view.php?id=4240 This is not resolved in current version because: "as this does require template changes, we will release it only in 5.1. For earlier versions please use this fix ..." I understand the policy not to do template changes in minor versions, i don’t think this is a good policy though. The reason not to change templates is this: "Except for important bug fixes, we usually don’t do any template changes in patches. This makes your life much easier when patching an existing OXID eShop." Well I would think this is an important bug fix as selection lists are not usable without it. Even if not, bugs in Templates are a different story than changing folder structure, variable names, method calls etc. No one benefits from not releasing bugfixes in Templates. Contrary, this makes life not easier but harder because in order to have a fully functional shop you would have to keep track of all solved but not yet released template bugs and fix them yourself. I think this policy needs to be rethought. Regards, Frank Zunderer _______________________________________________ dev-general mailing list [email protected] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.oxid.general _______________________________________________ dev-general mailing list [email protected] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.oxid.general
