Re: Tasks for a release

Posted by cjhowe on Jul 24, 2006; 8:03pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Re-Tasks-for-a-release-tp170046p170056.html

Are there any open source projects that are not driven
by a single company that successfully implement
feature freeze releases AND would have the complexity
of feature advancements that OFBiz does (this would
exclude most, if not all, Apache projects as most of
them are one trick ponies, so to speak)?  If there
are, maybe we should see how they best accopmlish
this.

--- Si Chen <[hidden email]> wrote:

> David,
>
> Without coordinating a feature freeze between the
> major contributors,  
> it would be very very difficult, especially for less
> experienced  
> "volunteers", to maintain the release branches and
> fix the bugs.  
>  From my personal experience trying to create the
> opentaps releases,  
> a good release can only be created if the original
> version is  
> reasonably stable and if the core developers
> significantly support  
> the effort by helping to push the bug fixes from
> trunk to the release  
> branch.
>
> On the issue of stability:
>
> 1.  I propose that we put this
> http://jira.undersunconsulting.com/ 
> browse/OFBIZ-500 back into the main code base.  It
> addressed a  
> typecast issue with field-to-field.
>
> 2.  I think we should take a vote: how many people
> would like to keep  
> current code "as is", so the "OID" data type (used
> for storing images  
> and content) works with Derby and not PostgreSQL,
> versus making a  
> change which would make it work with PostgreSQL and
> not Derby?
>
> 3.  I'll just keep my fingers crossed about the
> Geronimo transactions  
> manager then.
>
> Si
>
>
> On Jul 24, 2006, at 10:13 AM, David E Jones wrote:
>
> >
>
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