I agree,
and I really think we should also provide official weekly snapshots from
trunk.
Jacopo
Ray Barlow wrote:
I was just composing a similar message!
The suggestion I was going to make is that we consider doing a release
candidate, making sure it is packaged for easy download and deployment
and importantly announced that it's around. SVN is not always the most
attractive for people looking to evaluate what the project is all about,
as I see Jonathon has just responded with the same thoughts.
It might help to raise the interest and testing required to fix any
final issues, as there is a lot of good work going into patching bug
fixes in the release branch.
Ray
David E Jones wrote:
It has been nearly 5 months since we created the release4.0 branch
(late April). The hope for these release branches is that they will
stabilize within about 3 months and be ready for an initial binary
release. In order for this to happen effectively each branch needs a
reasonably sized subset of the OFBiz community doing real-world work
based on it. So...
1. Are there any users of the release4.0 branch with projects in
production or moving in that direction?
2. For anyone in that group, could you share your thoughts on the
current state of the branch?
At the minute the initial binary release has been delayed because
committers and the PMC have been very busy on other projects (quite a
summer!), but mostly because there just don't seem to be many issues
files specifically for release4.0 and because there hasn't been much
feedback from users grouping around that branch. Hence this email...
Because of the passing of time we will release a binary version in the
near future (perhaps a couple of weeks or so) regardless of the
responses in this thread or other relevant threads. If nothing else
that may help attract end-users to the branch.
Thanks,
-David
