Fwd: incubation status - graduation - new release

[David E Jones-2]

This is something I just wrote up in response to a question  
originally on this mailing list, so I'm forwarding the reply here too.

-David


Begin forwarded message:

> From: David E Jones <[hidden email]>
> Date: December 4, 2006 9:59:49 AM MST
> To: <[hidden email]>  
> <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: incubation status - graduation - new release
>
>
> Frank,
>
> Chances are no one answered because this is a fairly regular  
> question that is answered every so often, so there is information  
> in the mailing lists and even an old document on ofbiz.org that  
> addresses the topic:
>
> http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/docs/GettingAndUsingOFBiz.pdf
>
> This is the first link in the "Download OFBiz" section of the left  
> bar of the ofbiz home page, and there are additional resources  
> below it in that section.
>
> That document refers to opentaps for now, as for a long time we  
> weren't doing releases regularly so that was the only  
> "distribution" available. Once the new release is ready we will be  
> updating that.
>
> Hopefully we'll get the infrastructure transition going after the  
> Dec 20 Apache Board vote on OFBiz acceptance, if it goes well of  
> course. We will probably be doing the branch and release in early  
> January.
>
> In general the release isn't a big deal. We are doing some testing  
> and fixing of things before it, but the project simply does not  
> have resources to do a full QA pass so the real value of a release  
> is not that it is "perfect" but that for people who want something  
> stable they can work together to get bugs back-patched to that  
> version without new features going in that might mess things up or  
> cause data model changes, etc. In other words, as time goes on that  
> branch will get better and the upgrade on that branch should be  
> trivial.
>
> So yes, definitely go with the latest from SVN for now. I don't see  
> any real reason to wait, and you can join the release testing and  
> maintenance effort when that gets underway if you're interested in  
> using it.
>
> -David
>
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2006, at 7:56 PM, <[hidden email]>  
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> I submitted questions below last week. Still no response. I assume it
>> somewhat difficult to answer these questions right now.
>>
>> Still, we would like to install an initial ofbiz version on some  
>> server
>> in order to give various business units/departments (POS, operations,
>> finance, marketing) an idea of what ofbiz looks like and can do  
>> for us.
>>
>> One of my IT managers supposed to wait with this step until the first
>> graduated release is out. But, I would like to know when this would
>> happen. If this needed longer, we would go ahead pulling the  
>> latest SVN
>> version.
>>
>> BTW, we have contacted a vendor (www.netk5.com) which has ofbiz
>> implementation experience in China. According to them, they even
>> integrated ofbiz (e-Commerce) with a China local finance/accounting
>> package.
>>
>> Thanks for your comments.
>> Best, Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [hidden email]
>> [mailto:[hidden email]]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:03 PM
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Subject: incubation status - graduation - new release
>>
>> Now that the incubator has positively voted for ofbiz' graduation,  
>> when
>> do you think the graduation will eventually happen?
>>
>> Furthermore, when could we expect the first graduated release?
>>
>> Would you, for new commercial implementations, recommend using the
>> current SVN release?
>>
>> Thanks, Frank
>