This is something I just wrote up in response to a question
originally on this mailing list, so I'm forwarding the reply here too.
-David
Begin forwarded message:
From: David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: December 4, 2006 9:59:49 AM MST
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: incubation status - graduation - new release
Frank,
Chances are no one answered because this is a fairly regular
question that is answered every so often, so there is information
in the mailing lists and even an old document on ofbiz.org that
addresses the topic:
http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/docs/GettingAndUsingOFBiz.pdf
This is the first link in the "Download OFBiz" section of the left
bar of the ofbiz home page, and there are additional resources
below it in that section.
That document refers to opentaps for now, as for a long time we
weren't doing releases regularly so that was the only
"distribution" available. Once the new release is ready we will be
updating that.
Hopefully we'll get the infrastructure transition going after the
Dec 20 Apache Board vote on OFBiz acceptance, if it goes well of
course. We will probably be doing the branch and release in early
January.
In general the release isn't a big deal. We are doing some testing
and fixing of things before it, but the project simply does not
have resources to do a full QA pass so the real value of a release
is not that it is "perfect" but that for people who want something
stable they can work together to get bugs back-patched to that
version without new features going in that might mess things up or
cause data model changes, etc. In other words, as time goes on that
branch will get better and the upgrade on that branch should be
trivial.
So yes, definitely go with the latest from SVN for now. I don't see
any real reason to wait, and you can join the release testing and
maintenance effort when that gets underway if you're interested in
using it.
-David
On Dec 3, 2006, at 7:56 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David,
I submitted questions below last week. Still no response. I assume it
somewhat difficult to answer these questions right now.
Still, we would like to install an initial ofbiz version on some
server
in order to give various business units/departments (POS, operations,
finance, marketing) an idea of what ofbiz looks like and can do
for us.
One of my IT managers supposed to wait with this step until the first
graduated release is out. But, I would like to know when this would
happen. If this needed longer, we would go ahead pulling the
latest SVN
version.
BTW, we have contacted a vendor (www.netk5.com) which has ofbiz
implementation experience in China. According to them, they even
integrated ofbiz (e-Commerce) with a China local finance/accounting
package.
Thanks for your comments.
Best, Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: incubation status - graduation - new release
Now that the incubator has positively voted for ofbiz' graduation,
when
do you think the graduation will eventually happen?
Furthermore, when could we expect the first graduated release?
Would you, for new commercial implementations, recommend using the
current SVN release?
Thanks, Frank
