Clarify the deprecation and removing strategies

2021-02-11 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Hi, We already clarified things for services: https://markmail.org/message/ohzbubwacoyp6gpf While working on OFBIZ-12168 "Rename some connoted words like blacklist and whitelist." I found these: 1. Three "Deprecated since branch release: Upcoming branch" in datamodel files 2. One  "Update

FYI: 18.12.01 release and more

2021-02-11 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Hi, We started a discussion in the PMC private ML and I think we should continue here. Notably because of the Jcenter issue, Jacopo and Michael proposed to create a last R17 release: 17.12.06, nobody opposed. Michael also proposed: 1. solve the jCenter problem (should also be adressed for

Re: FYI: 18.12.01 release and more

2021-02-11 Thread Daniel Watford
Hi Jacques, +1 to all the points raised by Michael. It can be a bit disheartening knowing that changes we make to trunk today probably won't be used by the stable-branch user community for a few years. Anything that can be done to shorten the major release cycle will be a net positive in my

Re: FYI: 18.12.01 release and more

2021-02-11 Thread Michael Brohl
Hi Jacques, thanks for summing up the state of this topic and bringing the discussion back to the dev list. I think it would be best to separate the discussion of the release plan from the report of issues regarding the jCenter migration work. Else it will get confusing soon. Can you

Re: FYI: 18.12.01 release and more

2021-02-11 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Hi Daniel, We decided in the past that we would wait at least 1 year before releasing a freezed branch. We did not exclude to release more often... This could be discussed again with pro and cons... Jacques Le 11/02/2021 à 10:37, Daniel Watford a écrit : Hi Jacques, +1 to all the points

Re: FYI: 18.12.01 release and more

2021-02-11 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Done, thanks! Le 11/02/2021 à 10:54, Michael Brohl a écrit : Can you please report the issues in the corresponding Jira for the jCenter handling here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-12171

Re: FYI: 18.12.01 release and more

2021-02-11 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 11/02/2021 à 10:13, Jacques Le Roux a écrit : Got these errors running OFBiz just after (clean state): It's not really a clean state, of course the data are not loaded correctly because of the dbcp2 issue. I tried to add mavenLocal() to no avail. Reverting both PRs works Jacques

Re: FYI: 18.12.01 release and more

2021-02-11 Thread Pawan Verma
Hi Everyone, +1 for release 17.12.06 asap. +1 for release 18.12 asap. We should start migrating the trunk to JDK11 then create R21 asap. Stabilize and release R21 maybe in 2021 itself or in the first half of 2022 sooner the better. -- Thanks & Regards Pawan Verma ofbiz.apache.org On Thu, Feb

Re: FYI: 18.12.01 release and more

2021-02-11 Thread Michael Brohl
Hi folks, I did a cleanup of the Jira issues with focus on the upcoming r18.12 release. After this we currently have 40 open issues to get fixed for the release [1]. I have commented and mentioned reporters / assignees to check their issues and encourage everyone to check [1] if you can