Here is another proposal for release branches. Rather than doing a release branch every 1 - 2 years how about doing it by calendar and releasing a new branch more frequently (e.g. every 3 months). The objective would be to stay as close to the trunk as possible while still providing stability for production releases.
All appropriate fixes for the release branch would go back into the trunk. Then after 3 months we would create another release branch and start the process all over again. The community could also provide update scripts to help production deployments move from one release branch to another. This is currently a pain now and is one of the reason I think people don't update their production deployments. I'm attaching a graphic that shows how this proposal would work. I'll also put in another plug for community driven test cases. The test cases would be used to determine when the release branch was stable enough for a recommended general release. Brett On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM, David E Jones <david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>wrote: > > I just setup your jira permissions Bruno (sorry for forgetting that > earlier) and you should be able to do this now. > > How we want to do this is a good question. I suppose defining a release > target is the way to go, and we can use that for bug reporting after the > branch is created as well. > > As for the version name of the release we should talk about it. Thinking > about it now we have discussed doing a release branch once per year, and > perhaps once every 2 years. Perhaps we should version the release with the > year? I've never liked that approach a whole lot, because in many cases it > is less meaningful that a major/minor version number, but for OFBiz the > release branches are time based so perhaps a year makes sense. > > If we do that this next release could simply be "release2009", or if we > want to be more specific and perhaps use the Ubuntu model (and assuming > we're planning for a release in March) we could use something like > "release9.3". I think I like the simple release2009 better... > > Any other opinions? > > -David > > > > On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Bruno Busco wrote: > > David, >> could you create the new version in JIRA so that we can schedule these >> issues on it and have them displayed in the Road Map? >> >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel >> >> Thanks, >> -Bruno >> >> 2009/1/16 David E Jones <david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com> >> >> >>> On Jan 15, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: >>> >>> David E Jones wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> What do we still have that is up in the air for refactoring, cleanups, >>>>> and enhancements? I know quite a few have been worked on recently but >>>>> I'm >>>>> not sure of their exact status, but here are some that come to mind: >>>>> >>>>> >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1868 >>>> >>>> >>> Yes, that would be a good one to get done. >>> >>> There may also be other framework versus apps issues that need to be >>> resolved, actually I know there are (Bruno brought one up today in fact). >>> >>> -David >>> >>> >>> >
