Re: OFBiz 4.x/5.0

Posted by David E Jones-2 on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Incubator-September-Report-tp171490p171503.html


On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Chris Howe wrote:

> I suppose I just need the answer to a few of
> questions.
> 1) Is the release that RC1 is for going to be
> officially 4.0?

Please see my answers to Christian Geisert's questions about this  
topic. They were on this list in the last couple of days.

> 2) What is the distinction that the Apache Ofbiz
> community would want to take between a .X release
> point and a X.0 release point?

I think we'll just have 3 dot-separated numbers, ie 4.0.0. The last  
number would be for multiple releases in a single branch. In other  
words 4.0.0 is the first release in the 4.0 branch, and 4.0.1 is the  
second in that branch, and so on. 4.1 would be a separate branch and  
incrementing this second number would be for more minor changes. If  
we get to a big milestone or do a big change, we'd change the first  
number.

This is how we've planned to do it in the past, and a fairly common  
version numbering system that is pretty well understood.

> 3) When a decent road map feature set is voted on is
> using subtasks in Jira preferred or the "Affects
> Version" field?

The Affects Version field is more for bug fixes of a branch versus  
the trunk (the SVN "version"). If a bug is reported in 4.0.1, for  
example, we might see if it also exists in the trunk but the bug  
report is for that version.

For now let's not put high level and proposed features in Jira until  
thy have concrete support behind them. Otherwise we just end up with  
a confusing mess... In other words I think it would work better to  
have planning done in Confluence pages, and then specific tasks (once  
actionable...) put into Jira and referred to from there. This is  
early thought on this topic (ie just a proposal) and I know we  
haven't discussed, so feedback and other ideas would be great.

-David


> 4) Who else is interested in actively participating in
> this?
>
>
> --- David E Jones <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Chris Howe wrote:
>>
>>> --- David E Jones <[hidden email]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not at all opposed to an effort to try to
>> create
>>>> such a thing. Is
>>>> this something you would be interested in doing
>>>> Chris?
>>>
>>> That's something I would be very much interested
>> in
>>> doing/maintaining/ collaborating in.
>>
>> Great! What do you need to get started?
>>
>> As for a place to put the results, perhaps a page in
>> the wiki (OFBIZ)
>> part of docs.ofbiz.org would be the best.
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>