@albertca, I don't really get it, what would that change for you? If your project is longer than 6 months (this is not always the case for OpenERP I think, I've seen many SMB's projects been in production in 4/5 months), then you would simply not update your customer to the very last release if he doesn't want to pay for it, just like you don't upgrade everyday now (at least once it's in production).
On the contrary, if I think that say the XML/RPC fault code handling really doesn't fit for my customer (example seen at Smile), then I can allocate some hours to fix it and I can start working on next release because I know that my efforts are not worthless because a new version will be there when I'll need it. I mean, with all partners ready to get their hand dirty and move the ERP forward, you could easily have like 3 times more skilled resources on OpenERP for the same cost for Tiny. That's why I insist I see that as a good solution both to move things forward and also to avoid doing to much dirty things in a "stable" branch. Also bare in mind that if the released twice more often, then - a lot more people would be early adopters of the next version, thus testing it much more before there are too many regressions (while now I know a lot of partners who wait deliberately something like 3 months after the next release others debug it before jumping in) - difference from one version to an other would be much smaller. Meaning that instead of doing the migration nightmare from 4.x to 5.x, you would just follow an easier path, followed by many more people. What do you really expect after all, that something that get developed in the dark with littel resources and used by nobody during one year will be stable and really good? I don't believe open source works that way. I rather believe it works only if many skilled third parties manage to mutualize development costs from one version to an other which is currently not the case as third party will not be able to use anything important they enhanced on the platform before next year, which is certainly out of their customer scope. Waiting for comments. Best regards. ------------------------ Raphaël Valyi CEO and OpenERP consultant at http://www.akretion.com -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42392#42392 -------------------- m2f --------------------
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