Re: Tasks for a release
Posted by David E Jones-2 on Jul 24, 2006; 9:52pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Re-Tasks-for-a-release-tp170046p170058.html
Chris,
Exactly. If anyone knows of any I'd love to see how they're doing things... it's not an easy course in general, and I'm not sure if there are really many community driven enterprise level projects.
-David
Chris Howe wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Re-Tasks-for-a-release-tp170046p170058.html
Chris,
Exactly. If anyone knows of any I'd love to see how they're doing things... it's not an easy course in general, and I'm not sure if there are really many community driven enterprise level projects.
-David
Chris Howe wrote:
> 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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