Posted by
davidnwelton on
Jul 25, 2006; 5:14pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Re-Tasks-for-a-release-tp170046p170057.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.
OFBiz is complex, but I don't think it's *that* much of an outlier.
The Linux kernel has a lot of complex subsystems that need to
interact. Going one step further, 'distribution' type projects
(FreeBSD, that includes the kernel and user space, or something like
Debian or Ubuntu that concentrates on aggregating the pieces), have to
contend with constantly changing pieces of the system, and attempting
to freeze a stable set. Different from OFBiz, but I think it's not an
impossible problem. Personally, I think a huge win would be to
increase the amount of automated regression testing, but that's
certainly an effort.
I think it's partially an issue of time allocation - it seems that
currently, most time is spent 'going forward' rather than solidifying,
testing, and so on. I have the utmost confidence that were the guys
behind OFBiz to change their focus some, they would do the same
excellent job in cutting stable releases. But it's their call...
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David N. Welton
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