From: "Carsten Schinzer" <[email protected]>
All,
talking about that, I have a related question which actually would also
explain the uncertainty that is behind the initial question of this
mail-thread:
- How is the Release Plan document and the Main New Features document
related?
Not much.
- When will the next official release happen?
AFAIK no decision has been already taken. Historically, we could expect one for 2011... I can tell you that this time the release
(R9.04) is really better
I believe there is a main part in the project management missing if the
trunk is just left as is and anyone can do anything in order to improve the
piece they are just interested in. Is there any initiative from the
commiter's side to channel improvements on a certain component into a
release roadmap and e.g. include only functional extensions in on or a
handful of "focus" components plus bugfixes into the next "official
release"?
As it has been said already many times, OFBiz is a true open source project driven by a community and not a phoney driven by a
company behind. This (not specially OFBiz I mean), IMO, is not only noble but will tremendously change the futur of software and
hopefully the world, whaaaa... But it has also some drawbacks : more difficult to organize, less man power, etc. These are some of
the reasons why we have not been able so far to do somethning like you suggest. And to be franc, I doubt we will, at least in a
predictibile future.
In simpler terms, does anyone have an idea when we will see an official
release higher than 9.04? E.g. 9.10 in October?
Nobody has an idea since the community has not discussed this already.
I know this would involve a lot of work in screening open Jira issues,
collating them into functional releases and coordination the dev community
to deliver into a previously planned release cycle. Do you guys think the
project is ready for that? (and let me know whether & where I could possibly
help).
You certainly can help (and you already began IIRW), here is the official beginning :
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Contributors+Best+Practices
Thanks
Jacques
Thanks & regards
Carsten
