OFBiz doesn't face Roller's problem mentioned here:
http://rollerweblogger.org/project/entry/roller_needs_you

There're many activities in trunk everyday (including
weekends/holidays). As an OFBiz user, I don't think there will be a
10.04 as the change is not big enough.


在 2010-09-08三的 12:07 -0600,Ken Gunderson写道:
> On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 11:17 -0600, David E Jones wrote:
> > On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 17:14 -0700, BJ Freeman wrote:
> > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Release+Plan
> > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg27030.html
> > >>  David E Jones-4 wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >>  One quick thing to note, that seems to be confused here: the release
> > >>  branch is a tool for stabilization. It's great to do testing and fixing 
> > >> in
> > >>  the trunk, but the goal for a release branch is not to be tested and
> > >>  bug-free from day one, but rather to be stable so that real testing and
> > >>  bug fixing can be done in the release branch without worrying about new
> > >>  things possibly breaking something, or any other conflicting priorities.
> > >> 
> > >>  -David
> > >> That said there are some testing but I doubt it has been completely 
> > >> tested.
> > > 
> > > Thanks, David. I'm familiar with the concepts behind the development
> > > model but was hoping for something a little more explicit.  For example,
> > > from the wiki link:
> > > 
> > > "Once a release branch stabilizes an initial "stable" release tag and
> > > pre-built package will be issued"
> > > 
> > > Any projections on when this might happen for 10.04?  Days, weeks,
> > > months?  
> > 
> > Sorry, that message wasn't from me as a response to your question, it is an 
> > older message I wrote and BJ copied it in reply to your message (up to the 
> > "-David", after that I think those are BJ's comments).
> > 
> > As for when a stable release might happen, it totally depends on community 
> > interest. OFBiz is a community driven project. There is no central planning 
> > and control. All it takes for a release to be done is for one of the PMC 
> > members to push it through the process, and of course in order for that to 
> > happen that person must be both interested in seeing the stable release 
> > done, and either comfortable with the current state of the branch or 
> > willing to help push to get things ready for release.
> > 
> > A PMC member could become interested based on the interest of others, so 
> > asking here and expressing interest is a good thing to do to help get this 
> > going.
> > 
> > BTW, here is a reference of those who have moderation and management roles 
> > in the project:
> > 
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Apache+OFBiz+PMC+Members+and+Committers
> > 
> > -David
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I'm pretty familiar with open source and asf
> models, but not ofbiz.  Anyone care to elaborate on the "current state
> of the branch" w.r.t code readiness?  Is tagging 10.04 stable more a
> matter of code dev or asf hoops?  The 5.0 release of Roller, for
> example, is 99.9% the latter.
> 
> Thanks-- Ken
> 

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