Update on Support for 14.12 and 15.12 branches

[Sharan-F]

Hi Everyone

A quick update following on from the discussions last week about the 14.12 and 15.12 branches. The final result of the community discussions were as follows:

- There will be no more releases from 13.07 (so the current release that is out is the last one in that series)

- We are not backporting any of the gradle changes into the 14.12. or 15.12 branches because it will cause instability

- We are going to leave 14.12 and 15.12 as unreleased branches as they are now (and not make them into releases as to do that we would need to remove all the jar files and this would create instability).

- The benefits for leaving 14.12 and 15.12 as unreleased branches are that developers and service providers will still have access to the complete codebase for 14.12 and 15.12 including the special purpose components to be able to support their client base.

After a recent discussion on the dev mailing list, it was agreed that the 14.12 and 15.12 branches will be supported until July 2017

So what does this mean?
It means that developers can checkout, use and install the OFBiz code from the branches 14.12 and 15.12, and that these branches will be supported until July 2017. This also means that we will backport bug fixes into both branches until July 2017.

When will the next OFBiz stable release be Available?
At this stage we are working on stabilising the trunk with Gradle, and hope to create a 16.x branch later in the year. Once this is done we will be able to give a tentative release date.

I’ve also updated the website release information seciont with these details. http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html

Thanks
Sharan

[taher]

Great work Sharan. Thank you for everything you've done on this. I'm glad
we have an acceptable resolution that maintains vitality while propelling
us forward.

Taher Alkhateeb
On Jul 12, 2016 5:51 PM, "Sharan-F" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone
>
> A quick update following on from the discussions last week about the 14.12
> and 15.12 branches. The final result of the community discussions were as
> follows:
>
> -       There will be no more releases from 13.07 (so the current release
> that is
> out is the last one in that series)
>
> - We are not backporting any of the gradle changes into the 14.12. or 15.12
> branches because it will cause instability
>
> - We are going to leave 14.12 and 15.12 as unreleased branches as they are
> now (and not make them into releases as to do that we would need to remove
> all the jar files and this would create instability).
>
> - The benefits for leaving 14.12 and 15.12 as unreleased branches are that
> developers and service providers will still have access to the complete
> codebase for 14.12 and 15.12 including the special purpose components to be
> able to support their client base.
>
> After a recent discussion on the dev mailing list, it was agreed that the
> 14.12 and 15.12 branches will be supported until July 2017
>
> *So what does this mean?*
> It means that developers can checkout, use and install the OFBiz code from
> the branches 14.12 and 15.12, and that these branches will be supported
> until July 2017. This also means that we will backport bug fixes into both
> branches until July 2017.
>
> *When will the next OFBiz stable release be Available?*
> At this stage we are working on stabilising the trunk with Gradle, and hope
> to create a 16.x branch later in the year. Once this is done we will be
> able
> to give a tentative release date.
>
> I’ve also updated the website release information seciont with these
> details. http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Update-on-Support-for-14-12-and-15-12-branches-tp4688403.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Thanks Sharan,

I hope everybody will find this solution the better we could have with the constraints we have

Thanks

Jacques


Le 12/07/2016 à 16:55, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit :

> Great work Sharan. Thank you for everything you've done on this. I'm glad
> we have an acceptable resolution that maintains vitality while propelling
> us forward.
>
> Taher Alkhateeb
> On Jul 12, 2016 5:51 PM, "Sharan-F" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> A quick update following on from the discussions last week about the 14.12
>> and 15.12 branches. The final result of the community discussions were as
>> follows:
>>
>> -       There will be no more releases from 13.07 (so the current release
>> that is
>> out is the last one in that series)
>>
>> - We are not backporting any of the gradle changes into the 14.12. or 15.12
>> branches because it will cause instability
>>
>> - We are going to leave 14.12 and 15.12 as unreleased branches as they are
>> now (and not make them into releases as to do that we would need to remove
>> all the jar files and this would create instability).
>>
>> - The benefits for leaving 14.12 and 15.12 as unreleased branches are that
>> developers and service providers will still have access to the complete
>> codebase for 14.12 and 15.12 including the special purpose components to be
>> able to support their client base.
>>
>> After a recent discussion on the dev mailing list, it was agreed that the
>> 14.12 and 15.12 branches will be supported until July 2017
>>
>> *So what does this mean?*
>> It means that developers can checkout, use and install the OFBiz code from
>> the branches 14.12 and 15.12, and that these branches will be supported
>> until July 2017. This also means that we will backport bug fixes into both
>> branches until July 2017.
>>
>> *When will the next OFBiz stable release be Available?*
>> At this stage we are working on stabilising the trunk with Gradle, and hope
>> to create a 16.x branch later in the year. Once this is done we will be
>> able
>> to give a tentative release date.
>>
>> I’ve also updated the website release information seciont with these
>> details. http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sharan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> View this message in context:
>> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Update-on-Support-for-14-12-and-15-12-branches-tp4688403.html
>> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>

[Todd Thorner]

Thank you for this update.  Looking forward to 16.x and beyond.


On 16-07-12 07:08 AM, Sharan-F wrote:

> Hi Everyone
>
> A quick update following on from the discussions last week about the 14.12
> and 15.12 branches. The final result of the community discussions were as
> follows:
>
> - There will be no more releases from 13.07 (so the current release that is
> out is the last one in that series)
>
> - We are not backporting any of the gradle changes into the 14.12. or 15.12
> branches because it will cause instability
>
> - We are going to leave 14.12 and 15.12 as unreleased branches as they are
> now (and not make them into releases as to do that we would need to remove
> all the jar files and this would create instability).
>
> - The benefits for leaving 14.12 and 15.12 as unreleased branches are that
> developers and service providers will still have access to the complete
> codebase for 14.12 and 15.12 including the special purpose components to be
> able to support their client base.
>
> After a recent discussion on the dev mailing list, it was agreed that the
> 14.12 and 15.12 branches will be supported until July 2017
>
> *So what does this mean?*
> It means that developers can checkout, use and install the OFBiz code from
> the branches 14.12 and 15.12, and that these branches will be supported
> until July 2017. This also means that we will backport bug fixes into both
> branches until July 2017.
>
> *When will the next OFBiz stable release be Available?*
> At this stage we are working on stabilising the trunk with Gradle, and hope
> to create a 16.x branch later in the year. Once this is done we will be able
> to give a tentative release date.
>
> I’ve also updated the website release information seciont with these
> details. http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Update-on-Support-for-14-12-and-15-12-branches-tp4688403.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.