David, Thank you so much for your work on this! Combined with the forthcoming press release, I believe OFBiz will be entering a new era.
-Adrian --- On Fri, 4/17/09, David E Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > From: David E Jones <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Create Release Branch 2009.04 > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 2:08 AM > Okay, at long last the release branch is created. The URL > for it is: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/release09.04 > > Tim Ruppert will be heading up build and demo resources for > this in the near future, and for now it is in SVN. > > Just as with the release4.0 branch this now means as > contributors to the trunk we should watch out for fixes that > should also go into the branch and apply them there as well. > > Thanks to everyone who has helped, and everyone who is > continuing to help, with this. > > -David > > > On Apr 15, 2009, at 11:59 PM, David E Jones wrote: > > > > > [+1] Binding: David, Adrian, Anil, Scott, Jacopo > > [+1] Non-binding: Sam, Tim, Ashish, Vikas, Bruno, > Pranay, Shi, Marco, Ravindra > > [+0]: 0 > > [-1]: 0 > > > > Based on this result (more than 3 binding +1 votes and > more +1 than -1 votes) the vote has passed. > > > > In respect for comments about the time, I'll wait > for about 12 hours more from the time of this email (that > makes it mid-day Thursday my time) to do the actual branch. > If anyone would like to vote after this that's fine, but > unless something major comes up we'll consider this vote > binding and do the release branch as has been planned for > (though ~1.5 days after). With that timing the press release > should go out early (probably Monday) of next week, for > those interested in such things. > > > > -David > > > > > > On Apr 14, 2009, at 3:14 PM, David E Jones wrote: > > > >> > >> Today is the day we have discussed for a while! A > lot of improvements and fixes have gone in over the last few > weeks, but it is important to remember that the release > branch is primarily time-based and is a "line in the > sand" as it were to begin the effort of stabilizing a > specific code base so that end-users who want stability over > features have that option. Some things make it in, and other > things don't make it, and that is true no matter when we > draw the line (but we don't want to delay it forever). > What we have in place it a HUGE improvement over the > release4.0 branch, and that is the most important point to > keep in mind. > >> > >> Along with that there is a planned press release > coordinated with the Apache Software Foundation Public > Relations Committee (that's a mouthful! no wonder we use > acronyms like: ASF PRC) for tomorrow morning (Wed 15 April). > >> > >> That said, the target date/time for the release > branch is later tonight (and when I say tonight I mean > according to USA time, just to clarify). To follow the date > pattern we have discussed and make it clearly a date I'm > thinking of the actual name for the branch directory to be > "release200904" (and please feel free to comment > on that if you think something else is better). > >> > >> However, that I will only do that IFF we have a > positive vote for the release, hence this message! > >> > >> Please vote: > >> > >> [+1] Create the release branch tonight, April 14th > (it will be April 15th for GMT-0) > >> [+0] Abstain > >> [-1] Do not create the release branch tonight > >> > >> Please remember that everyone is free to (and > encouraged to!) vote, but only the PMC votes are binding. > >> > >> Thanks to everyone who has made this possible with > amazing contributions over the last 2 years, and a > heightened activity in recent weeks and months to make this > a spectacular release. > >> > >> -David > >> > >
