Re: Proposal to "close" the 4.0 and 09.04 release branches

Posted by Jacques Le Roux on Feb 23, 2012; 9:00am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Proposal-to-close-the-4-0-and-09-04-release-branches-tp4413190p4413241.html

I'm all for it

+1

Jacques

From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>

> Hi devs,
>
> I would like to propose to officially close the two oldest branches:
>
> release4.0
> release09.04
>
> When the branches will be closed:
> * we will no more backport fixes to them (no commits in general will be done)
> * if a user will submit a patch for the branch in Jira we will resolve as "won't fix": the patch will still be there for
> interested parties
> * no new release will be created in the future from the two branches
> * the OFBiz download page will explain that the branches are old and no more supported
> * (optional) we could "close" the Jira versions for them and resolve as "won't fix" outstanding issues if only related to these
> branches
>
> The result would be that, if the current vote for the release "Apache OFBiz 09.04.02" will pass then the 09.04.02 will be the last
> (and third) release of this branch.
> Of course we could still return on this decision if something new will happen... but I doubt because the number of commits lately
> has been very low.
>
> The main goal is to help the community  to have a clearer roadmap for the future and to help to focus on more defined targets:
> older branches are not supported, but the community will always try to backport fixes to the last two/three branches: the
> currently active branches are 11.04, 10.04 and the upcoming 12.04.
> Following the same rule ("no more than three active release branches at a time") we could plan to "close" the 10.04 branch around
> (sometime before) April 2013 (when the new release branch 13.04 will be created).
>
> This is a small and natural step in the direction of having some sort of roadmap for the project.
> This, together with the discussion going on in thread "Proposal about a time based release plan" should be enough to define and
> create a nice and clean release roadmap.
>
> We could start an official vote thread if there is interest in this, or, less formally, we could more simply use this thread to
> discuss pros and cons and find an agreement.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jacopo
>
>