If errors come back, why not add a junit test to check it what we did for the shopping cart and checkout?
That is the best assurance an error does not come back...... On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 14:33 +1200, Scott Gray wrote: > If people are willing to believe that the trunk carries minimal extra risks > in terms of stability and bugs then good luck to them. The number of open > bugs in JIRA is a pretty good indication that bugs occur regularly and > sometimes take years to fix. > > The reality is that every commit carries a risk of regression and I've > personally fixed many bugs repeatedly as they continue to resurface with new > commits. Editing an order with promotions is an example of this, I've fixed > it at least twice over the years and I believe it's broken again at the > moment. Order and invoice rounding is another issue I've had to deal with a > few times. > > Obviously there is a reason that OFBiz, just like most other software, > creates and maintains releases. That reason is stability for end users. > > Regards > Scott > > On 26/07/2011, at 1:20 PM, Hans Bakker wrote: > > > I can really say that the trunk version has only very minimal extra > > risks especially if you are supported by an OFBiz service provider who > > is using OFBiz himself like us. > > > > We are always using the trunk version for Antwebsystems.com for most > > functions within our own company and upgrade at a maximum every month. > > Once in a while (1-2 times per year) we find blocking problems. We do > > however always fix these within hours and in the mean time provide an > > earlier svn version which was functioning well. > > > > We advise our users to upgrade the system at least once every 3 months > > when the upgrade efforts are minimal. > > > > Regards, > > Hans > > > > -- > > Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz > > ofbiz.info on twitter: http://twitter.com/ofbiz_info > > Antwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates. > > > > > > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 12:48 +1200, Scott Gray wrote: > >> I'd definitely encourage early adopters to go for 11.04, but at the end of > >> the day the choice between 10.04, 11.04 or the trunk is simply a matter of > >> weighing the desire for new features against risk of instability and bugs. > >> > >> The use of vendor branches is equally applicable to any version of OFBiz. > >> I was simply pointing out that some committers are more likely to > >> recommend the trunk because it is easier for them to work with, but > >> perhaps it is not necessarily in the best interests of the client due to > >> the increased risks. > >> > >> Regards > >> Scott > >> > >> On 26/07/2011, at 2:54 AM, Mike wrote: > >> > >>> Why 10.04 vs 11.04 at this point? 11.04 is way better (blogging > >>> actually works). > >>> > >>> Also, as long as you have gone through the initial trouble of setting > >>> up your own vendor branch (real important) using trunk is feasible. > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Scott Gray <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> Just to put out an opposing point of view, I recommend using the latest > >>>> stable release and not the trunk. The trunk is susceptible to new bugs > >>>> whereas 10.04 is not and in fact has seen nothing but bug fixes for the > >>>> past 15 months. So imagine taking the trunk and spending 15 months only > >>>> fixing bugs, that is what 10.04 is. Does the trunk have more features? > >>>> Yes, but in my opinion you're unlikely to need any of them and if you do > >>>> you can always consider back porting the relevant code that you need. > >>>> > >>>> Using the trunk is simply more convenient for committers because they > >>>> can commit their changes instead of maintaining patches like everyone > >>>> else. Most users don't have that power and if they do submit a patch it > >>>> is pretty unlikely it will get committed very quickly. > >>>> > >>>> Regards > >>>> Scott > >>>> > >>>> On 24/07/2011, at 4:45 PM, Hans Bakker wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hi Tim, > >>>>> > >>>>> i just tested with the trunk version and followed the following blog: > >>>>> http://www.antwebsystems.com/control/ViewBlogArticle?contentId=16907 > >>>>> > >>>>> There it is working well. > >>>>> > >>>>> I advice you to use the latest trunk version and not 10.04. Here in > >>>>> Antwebsystems we always use the latest version from svn which in my > >>>>> opinion has the least problems and the most features. > >>>>> If there would be a blocking problem in the latest version, we normally > >>>>> fix that within a couple of hours after reporting. > >>>>> > >>>>> Further, Postgresql is preferred above Mysql seeing the recent takeover > >>>>> by Oracle and the following article: > >>>>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Why_PostgreSQL_Instead_of_MySQL:_Comparing_Reliability_and_Speed_in_2007 > >>>>> > >>>>> Regards, > >>>>> Hans > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 12:59 -0700, Tim Stoel wrote: > >>>>>> I have OfBiz 10.04 installed on a local server with MySQL as the > >>>>>> database > >>>>>> engine, we¹ve been working with this for about six months now. We are > >>>>>> intending to use OfBiz for eCommerce, as well as sales order > >>>>>> processing for > >>>>>> eBay orders and have made a lot of progress in adapting it to our > >>>>>> business. > >>>>>> When we installed OfBiz, there is a lot of demo data in the database. > >>>>>> I > >>>>>> wondered what the best way is to deal with this data. When I setup > >>>>>> OfBiz > >>>>>> with only seed data, it seemed a lot of things were not configured > >>>>>> that were > >>>>>> useful, which is why I went back to using all of the demo data. > >>>>>> Should it > >>>>>> be deleted one record at a time manually using another database tool? > >>>>>> What > >>>>>> is the best path to get from an install of OfBiz to using it without > >>>>>> the > >>>>>> excess demo entries? Is there any documentation on this? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Thanks, > >>>>>> Tim > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz > >>>>> Myself on twitter: http://twitter.com/hansbak > >>>>> Antwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> > > > > -- > > Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz > > Myself on twitter: http://twitter.com/hansbak > > Antwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates. > > > -- Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz Myself on twitter: http://twitter.com/hansbak Antwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates.
