I am still following, and have been surprised at what I started... It *IS* great! :-)
Thanks for the tip, I'll try that right away. Thanks again. -- Matt Warnock <[email protected]> RidgeCrest Herbals, Inc. On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 14:23 +0200, Carsten Schinzer wrote: > Incredible how the original topic now turned into something pretty different > ... it's just great! > > Matt, if you are still following this, I have a recommendation to make for > your original point 3. > You should start versioning your own releases (I do the same) and integrate > a later revision of OFBiz every now and then. > > The trick is know as Subversion "Vendor Branch" and it is described in > detail here: > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.vendorbr.html > > Try it out and you will see: after some 2-3 updates from the vendor's > repository (in this case OFBiz'), you will feel safe with the procedure. And > you should then also be able to automate it using scripting. > > I still recommend you use an official release branch of OFBiz rather than > trunk, but using this recommendation will actually allow you to do > "fallbacks" on arbitrary versions of OFBiz trunk as long as you are > consequently tagging your own releases. > I do also recommend a testing stage before committing to your local > repository and rolling on to production. > Pros and cons on these latter two points have been addressed in the trail > already. > > Hope this helps! > > Regards > > > Carsten
