On Nov 12, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
- Framework release
- gather ideas from people in a confluence page (TODO: add my own)
- complex UIs, GWT, DOJO, etc renderers for widgets
I've been thinking about the framework release and our current
Release 4. Release 4 will be two years old in a few months. A lot
has been done to the project since the R4 branch. How about making a
Release 5 branch (whole project) sometime around Spring?
I think that's fine. Hopefully by then we'll have more framework
things done.
What I'd really like to hear for releases is what people plan to do
with the release branch. In general in order to facilitate
collaboration and such it is best to use the trunk. Unless we have a
lot of people using OFBiz OOTB then it may not make sense to do
releases at all, even "lite" releases like these release branches.
Still, we can and should do them periodically, and they are of course
very easy to do (just make a branch...) and then it is up to
individuals to decide whether to use it and fix bugs in it or now.
I don't mean to dilute the framework release effort. But at the same
time, it seems to me issues are coming up in R4 that have been
addressed in the trunk.
While to some extent this depends on the type of issue, in general
issues in the 4.0.0 branch should be fixed in that branch by the "sub-
community" that has formed around the branch. If things are not
getting fixed, to me that means the branch has not attracted enough of
a user and contributor community. I don't know how to fix that
problem...
-David
