If there are no dates and no list of tickets to resolve, how do you know when you are done?

Shouldn't there at least be a list of blocking tickets so people know what needs to be done? How do committers actually know which bugs are in need of fixing now and which ones can wait?

Does the community get any visibility into the project progress?

It would seem to important to know what bugs are going to be fixed in the 13.07.01 and which ones are deferred to the next maintenance release and which ones are only going to be added in the 2014 or 2015 major release.

I would be interested in hearing from the community how people who are making a living with OfBiz or are using it to run their business, deal with this process. Does it actually cause any anxiety or am I just concerned about something that makes no difference.

Ron

On 19/09/2014 10:29 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
There is no commitment on dates, the dates on the website are just tentative 
dates. We do not follow a Beta/RC1/RC2 cycle, nor we have a predefined list of 
planned tickets to be resolved.

However I think it is good time to prepare for the publication of the new 
release, since the stabilization phase has been pretty long already.

What other think? I can prepare the release artifacts and start a vote in a few 
days if we are all ok.

Jacopo


On Sep 19, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:

I am new here but since I started to get active Release 13.07 has missed 2 
published release dates.
I have also found out that some people are already using it in production environment and 
are starting to worry about changes to 13.07 data structures and functionality that are 
being suggested as part of "bug fixes" to 13.07 as part of the release.

Beta, RC1, RC2 planned?
Is there a list of tasks that need to be done to release the first 13.07 
release which is currently scheduled for next week?
Have they been assigned and accepted?
When will they be completed?
There seems to be a lot of spare energy in the group at the moment and it would 
be good to channel it into getting the release done.

Are there documentation or other non-coding tasks that need to be finished?

I understand that this is an open source project with volunteers but there 
still needs to be some commitment to dates.
They may slip but it should be absolutely clear why they slipped and a 
commitment from the PMC to see that the revised dates are met once the PMC has 
published the new dates.


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Artifact Software Inc
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skype: ronaldmwheeler
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Artifact Software Inc
email: [email protected]
skype: ronaldmwheeler
phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102

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