Re: Request to All Committers

Posted by David E Jones on Apr 28, 2007; 5:29am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Request-to-All-Committers-tp180509p180515.html


Jonathon,

With all of these comments I think you're forgetting the basic idea  
of how OFBiz is structured: it is community driven, ie driven from  
the outside in. It is not centrally driven or driven from the inside  
out.

So...


On Apr 27, 2007, at 10:21 PM, Jonathon -- Improov wrote:

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

There is no way to do this. If someone wanted to take this on they  
certainly could, but neither I nor anyone is in a position to tell  
any other committer what to do and require something like this of them.

A single volunteer would probably not be sufficient anyway. As  
described in the release plan in order for the release branch to  
result in a successful stable release, lots of people from the  
community need to get involved.

> 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?).

There is no "OFBiz" to even want such a thing. A release branch will  
eventually stagnate and die when there aren't enough organizations/
people using it or they are no longer interested in maintaining it.

-David

> David E. Jones wrote:
>> On Apr 27, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Jonathon -- Improov wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 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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