Hello everyone, I would like feedback from the community about the version numbering of addons.
When working with openerp modules, it is important to know if upgrading an instance to a new version of the module requires to do the "update module" dance (either from the command line of the server or from the web interface). There is currently no clear way of doing this automatically, as far as I know. However, if we want to build such tool, we need information about which modules need updating. One such way is by using the version number in __openerp__.py. So it becomes necessary to increment that version number when changes are made in the module which require an upgrade to be performed when the module is installed. Such changes include: * adding a new model (or a new model specialisation) * changing the column definitions of a model * modifying data files (views, security rules...) I'm not sure about the status of translation files. The version numbering scheme I'm used to uses three numbers a.b.c * a is incremented in case of a major rewrite of the module * b is incremented when new features are added * c is incremented when bugs are fixed I'm fairly open to different numbering schemes, and won't argue about this. But I'm pretty certain that making sure that the version is changed when the module requires an explicit upgrade will ease maintenance for anyone in charge of OpenERP instances with community modules installed. What do you think about this? If there is a consensus that this is useful, the next steps are: * build a module which helps upgrading the modules with an more recent on-disk version than the one in database * remind people that they've forgotten to increment the version number during code reviews for MP going to the 6.1 or 7.0 branches of the community projects -- Alexandre Fayolle Chef de Projet Tel : + 33 (0)4 79 26 57 94 Camptocamp France SAS Savoie Technolac, BP 352 73377 Le Bourget du Lac Cedex http://www.camptocamp.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
