On Sep 19, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
I too hope to see more feedback (i.e. votes) on the release proposal.
I think that in an official release we should at least include the
mod I did into 447424 because without it the order creation could
fail :-(
In response to a question from Christian Geisert I briefly described
the release process that has been discussed and that I think we are
planning on.
I guess there is less clarity about this than I thought, so I'll copy
those comments below.
-David
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Real releases, like the one we plan to do shortly after graduation
from incubation, will have a branch and such. Whether we will do a
branch at the release candidate phase, or even do a release candidate
phase for real releases, is yet to be decided. The nature of OFBiz is
quite a bit different from many open source projects and for reasons
that have been discussed in probably thousands of messages over the
years doing a "feature freeze" or anything like that in order to move
to a "stable" release seems now to be more than the OFBiz community
has resources to do properly.
Because of that the plan is to have community driven releases. In
other words, we do announce a release intention and ask people to
test things and if there aren't any major show-stoppers, we do a
branch and a release based on that branch. Once we do a branch like
this a sub-community develops that can collaborate on making that
branch a good stable artifact set over time as bug fixes only are
back-ported and issues specific to that branch are fixed over time.
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