http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Re-Tasks-for-a-release-tp170046p170059.html
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> 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:
>>>
>>>