Re: Short term plans for official releases

Posted by Jacques Le Roux on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Short-term-plans-for-official-releases-tp3874085p3920074.html

Jacopo,

From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
> Hi Jacques,
>
> it sounds like a good idea; I would like to suppress the mention to Ubuntu and simply describe the naming convention we use.

Yes sure, it's ok with me

Thanks

Jacques

> Kind regards,
>
> Jacopo
>
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>
>> Hi Jacopo,
>>
>> Maybe we could add an explanation on top of the download page, to make things more clear. From
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Release+Plan#ReleasePlan-GeneralReleasePolicies
>>
>> We could say
>>
>> <<Release branches are created once per year, so far in April . We use the same release numbering scheme than Ubuntu (for
>> instance, 9.4 means released in 2009.April).>>
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
>>> Hi Jacques,
>>>
>>> On Oct 18, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>>
>>>> The same (than Bruno) was also asked later by Ruth later (in another thread) BTW...
>>>> What don't you like in the release name convention? The Ubuntu way?
>>>
>>> It is not a big deal but, since we have very few releases an old traditional sequence would have worked fine imo.
>>> Now we have 09.04 but people are confused because they may think there is also a 09.03 or it is not obvious that 09.04 is
>>> greater than 4.
>>> And last point, it is not that clear that 09.04 means 2009.04...
>>>
>>> But at this point it is fine and imo having one convention and sticking to it is much better than changing it.
>>>
>>> Jacopo
>>>
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