Status of OFBiz Release roadmap

[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

Hi all,

now that all the steps needed to release the 11.04.01 release are completed, I am providing a short summary of the OFBiz Release roadmap.
The last two months have been quite busy for the OFBiz project and we have been able to release 3 (!!!) products:

Apache OFBiz 10.04.03 - bug fix release with several bug fixes and some important fix for vulnerabilities
Apache OFBiz 10.04.04 - bug fix release with a new version of Tomcat
Apache OFBiz 11.04.01 - this is an important milestone for the OFBiz project because we have finally released all the features up to April 2011

According to our tentative release schedule (available http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html) we can now relax (at least on the release management, unless new vulnerabilities are discovered) for a few months; here are the next upcoming ones:

February 2013 - Apache OFBiz 12.04.01
March 2013 - Apache OFBiz 11.04.02
April 2013 - Apache OFBiz 10.04.05 (last release of the 10.04 series)
September 2013 - Apache OFBiz 11.04.03

And of course in April 2013 we will create the new release branch for the 13.04 series.

Keep up the good work, and please consider that, even if only the Committers' votes are binding, everyone is invited to test and vote the new releases: in the ASF world releases are actually the most important part of a community's work because it is when the community officially publishes all its hard work done to the public.

Kind regards,

Jacopo

[Jacques Le Roux]

Thanks Jacopo,

And it's quite clear on http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html, good job OFBiz team :o)

So we should now continue the slim-down effort. Should we wait to finish it before beginning to look at Java 7 for OFBiz?
I know there are not much features in Java 7, but when I read http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html I think it's time to think about it, don't you think so?
Not all companies can afford or want to use "Oracle Java SE Support": http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list-070617.pdf

Jacques

From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>

> Hi all,
>
> now that all the steps needed to release the 11.04.01 release are completed, I am providing a short summary of the OFBiz Release roadmap.
> The last two months have been quite busy for the OFBiz project and we have been able to release 3 (!!!) products:
>
> Apache OFBiz 10.04.03 - bug fix release with several bug fixes and some important fix for vulnerabilities
> Apache OFBiz 10.04.04 - bug fix release with a new version of Tomcat
> Apache OFBiz 11.04.01 - this is an important milestone for the OFBiz project because we have finally released all the features up to April 2011
>
> According to our tentative release schedule (available http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html) we can now relax (at least on the release management, unless new vulnerabilities are discovered) for a few months; here are the next upcoming ones:
>
> February 2013 - Apache OFBiz 12.04.01
> March 2013 - Apache OFBiz 11.04.02
> April 2013 - Apache OFBiz 10.04.05 (last release of the 10.04 series)
> September 2013 - Apache OFBiz 11.04.03
>
> And of course in April 2013 we will create the new release branch for the 13.04 series.
>
> Keep up the good work, and please consider that, even if only the Committers' votes are binding, everyone is invited to test and vote the new releases: in the ASF world releases are actually the most important part of a community's work because it is when the community officially publishes all its hard work done to the public.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jacopo
>
>

[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

On Nov 18, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> So we should now continue the slim-down effort. Should we wait to finish it before beginning to look at Java 7 for OFBiz?

In my opinion all the maintenance work (external jar upgrades, migration of old artifacts to newer best practices, code cleanups, improve code comments and code review, etc...) can be done in parallel with the slim down effort.
If there is enough interest we could start discussing a plan for Java 7 too.

Jacopo