+1 on putting the r13.07 branch out to the pasture, and bring the focus towards r15 branch to cut a release soon.
+1 on putting the r14 branch out to the pasture, and bring the focus towards r15 branch to cut a release soon. +1 on focusing on getting the release from r15 out ASAP Best regards, Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Todd Thorner <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for this, Mr. Foga. The Downloads page of the ofbiz.apache.org > site mentions 14.x and 15.x only as part of the project's tentative release > schedule. Would end user newcomers be wise to wait out the transition? > > > > > On 16-06-28 09:55 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: > >> Thanks Jacopo for the details and summary. >> >> I know that some people might think it a bit strange that this discussion >> is happening on the user list rather than the dev list, but I think these >> topics are something that our users may have an opinion on and want to >> comment. >> >> +1 for suggestion #1 >> >> 13.07 has been around a while so I think that ending it now rather than >> next year will help us to focus on other work (e.g. refactoring and clean >> up) >> >> +1 for suggestion #2 >> >> I think the work we are currently doing to improve the trunk build system >> isn't really that visible to our users, but it will make a big difference >> to developers and people who administer the system. Pushing those technical >> benefits back to 14.12 and 15.12 (if we still want to call them that!) will >> help. >> >> Also OFBiz has changed a lot since the 14.12 and even 15.12 branches were >> created. We've incorporated so much new functionality that it would be a >> good thing to try and get some of this into our next release. Essentially >> it would mean more functionality for our users. >> >> Thanks >> Sharan >> >> On 2016-06-28 12:26 (+0200), Jacopo Cappellato < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> as you may know we are working at migrating the build scripts of the >>> OFBiz >>> trunk from Ant to Gradle. >>> Together with this important change we are also modifying, for policy >>> reasons, the way we distribute the external dependencies (i.e., the jar >>> files needed by OFBiz): the required jars will be downloaded at build >>> time. >>> Since these changes are not bug fixes, the current plan is to do these >>> changes only in the trunk and do not backport them to the active >>> branches, >>> that are currently: >>> >>> * 13.07 >>> * 14.12 >>> * 15.12 >>> >>> However, we will still have to modify these branches by removing the >>> external jar files and download them using Ivy. >>> >>> The first concern is that we will have to work on and stabilize two >>> fronts: >>> Ivy for the 3 current release branches and Gradle for the trunk and the >>> future branches. >>> The second concern is that, as a consequence, we will have, for several >>> years, significant differences in the setup/build steps between the old >>> releases and the new ones that could cause confusion and regressions when >>> bugs are backported. >>> >>> We have already issued 3 releases from the 13.07 branch and we have a >>> tentative plan to issue one more release around February 2017 that would >>> be >>> the last release of this series. >>> As regards 14.12 and 15.12 branches, no releases have been issued yet. >>> >>> Based on these details I would like you to consider the following >>> decisions: >>> >>> 1) anticipate the end of life of the release branch 13.07 at now; we >>> would >>> not issue the fourth release as initially planned >>> 2) once stabilized, backport to 14.12 and 15.12 all the changes required >>> to >>> build the system and download its dependencies with Gradle >>> >>> Please express your opinion on each of them separately, since they are >>> independent (i.e., you could agree/disagree on the first/second/both). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jacopo >>> >>> >
