Ron, In 2009 or thereabouts the PMC decided to adopt the Ubuntu way of numbering OFBiz releases. Since then every year in april a release was cut. But as the number of active committers is decreasing the time to release a cut takes more time. Last year broke with that policy, resulting in a release been cut with number 13.07.
Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > https://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html page needs updating. > > Is the 12.04.05 release date closer to being known? > > > The description of the Release number says that release numbers consist of > 2 parts > > "The naming convention for OFBiz releases is*<Major Release > Number>.<Minor Release Number>"* > but the releases seem to have 3 digits. Patch description missing. > > The 13.x.x series part of the page puzzles me. > It seems to indicate that some early versions 13.0.0, 13.07.01 should > already be able to be downloaded. > It also seems to indicate that the 13.x.x will be released in 2014 which > means that it should have a 14.x.x release number. > > I am not sure why a non-standard pattern of release identification was > adopted but it is confusing and now inconsistent. > It leads to the impression that the project is not active since it missed > 2013 altogether. > > Would it not be possible/"good thing" to adopt a standard pattern of > releases where the first digit indicates major change with some risk of > serious work required to upgrade, second digit indicating significant new > functionality but no change to the existing data structure or functions > that are not changing and the last digits indicating a minor bug fix? > > > > Ron > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: [email protected] > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 > >
