Posted by
Jacques Le Roux on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Short-term-plans-for-official-releases-tp3874085p3910559.html
Jacopo,
I have just added this sentence to
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Release+Plan#ReleasePlan-GeneralReleasePolicies* Because it needs too much work, at some point older releases will not be supported by the community (trunk patches not backported)
I have also noticed this sentence (just before the one I added)
* Each new release tag and pre-built package will be represented by a third position version number change (since February 2009
seems that we will prefer to use the revision number for that)
I like the idea of adding the revision number rather than a third position version number, maybe it's not worth changing now but we
could stick with it for future releases? (It relates to this thead
http://markmail.org/message/3xhnpbbmceg5hdg7)
About the download page, looks good to me, some questions:
*Something is not clear to me
<<Apache OFBiz 10.04
This release contains all the features of the trunk up to April 2010 and since then has been stabilized with bug fixes.>>
So it means that the zip is automatically updated from the repo (when changed) and always last revision accessible to mirrors,
right? Same for 09.04.01, I guess?
* Under the Snapshots section, I'd like to add some words about svn repo, trunk and releases branches. Do you think it makes sense
(it's not releases but could interest, make quicker links for developers)
Thanks
Jacques
From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <
[hidden email]>
> Jacques, all,
>
> I did a series of changes (rev. 1180638) to the text and formatting of the "Download" page and now it should be easier to
> understand what to download and how things are structured; I have tried to incorporate your feedback.
> When you can, please have a look (and a double look to typos and grammar).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jacopo
>
> On Oct 8, 2011, at 5:13 PM,
[hidden email] wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jacopo,
>>
>> I had the feeling I was missing something. I plenty agree with your suggestions. Could we not had a word on this page about
>> "live"
>> branches (vs freezed/zipped releases) and a link to repo (vs downloads mirrors)? I'm currently in vacation for a week, so I will
>> not
>> work on this soon...
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <
[hidden email]>
>>> Thank you Jacques, please see my note below:
>>>
>>> On Oct 5, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe we should make more clear somewhere that releases like 10.04.01 or 09.04.02 are only tagged revisions in respective
>>>> branches
>>>> (or did I miss some places where this is clearly explained?). In other words only branches are still evolving when releases are
>>>> freezed.
>>>
>>> This is explainedin the official download page (where releases are published):
>>>
>>>
http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html>>>
>>> but of course we could improve the information there; I was thinking to better separate the latest release 10.04 from the older
>>> ones and also, inside a series, decrease the fonts of the older releases.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Jacopo
>
>