Re: Request to All Committers

Posted by jonwimp on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Request-to-All-Committers-tp180509p180514.html

Agreed.

Would it be feasible to dedicate a committer to the release branch, a committer who will become
very familiar with the branch?

Are you also saying that there will not be any release branches that are too old to be maintained
by OFBiz committers? It's quite usual to see project developers shelf a release branch, and to see
a group of "outsiders" offer to maintain it just because they have clients using it. Those project
teams that don't ever "leave any branch behind" are those who are willing to work new bugfixes
into the old branches, no matter how far the trunk has deviated from those branches.

What happens when OFBiz wants to move to the next version (5.0?).

Jonathon

David E. Jones wrote:

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> On Apr 27, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Jonathon -- Improov wrote:
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>> I would recommend including the full log of the bugfix being brought
>> in. At some point, the release branch may be left to "outsiders"
>> (interested parties not within OFBiz team) to maintain, and they'll
>> need good docs.
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> This is not likely to ever happen. In fact, the vetting and monitoring
> on the release branch will be more strict, not less, than the trunk.
>
> -David
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