Request to All Committers

Posted by David E Jones on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Request-to-All-Committers-tp180509.html


To help maintain the release branch, I'd like to ask all committers  
to keep it in mind as we fix bugs.

If you commit a bug fix to the trunk, go ahead and merge it into the  
release branch as well.

This should be pretty easy, just do the following:

1. keep a checkout of the release4.0 branch somewhere on your machine  
(the full URL is: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/ 
release4.0)

2. after committing to the trunk make note of your commit revision  
number and go into your release4.0 branch local checkout directory  
and run something like (replacing the rev number there with the one  
from your commit):

$ ./mergefromtrunk.sh 532994

This doesn't take much time and it will make it easier for all of us  
to keep the release branch updated with the latest bug fixes that go  
into the trunk. Of course, if there is a conflict in the merge or the  
bug was caused after the release branch was done, then this will  
require more work or won't be necessary.

BTW, for everyone watching in this sort of overhead is one reason why  
we haven't been really excited about doing release branches in the  
past, but still it's great that OFBiz is reaching the level of  
maturity where this is possible and happening!

Thanks,
-David