One way to go about release is how other Open Source projects specially
ASF projects do the releases. Standard generally these projects follow
are Milestones (e.g. M1, M2,...), Release Candidates (RC1, RC2,...) and
final release.
Geronimo has this document
(http://geronimo.apache.org/project-policies.html) explaining their
release process in detail. Similar to this will be useful for Ofbiz.
Thanks,
Raj
David E. Jones wrote:
This is a good list, though we can probably drop off anything related
to a marketing concern for now, like preparing a press release.
At this point the developer/committer community in OFBiz seems to be
_too_ busy, and a bunch of new user traffic coming into the project
might be difficult to handle, and therefore contribute to the already
fairly large pile up of un-addressed issues (we need help reviewing,
commenting, etc as a pre-review to help committers, and this is a
great way to move toward becoming a committer!).
Also, we should probably wait for a couple of months for the branch to
stabilize and get patched up with fixes before we do a major binary
release on it and call it a real release, even a beta quality one. We
could do a binary release immediately and flag it as beta or
something... but unless someone wants to invest in testing before the
branch, the testing will only be done through usage of the release
branch after it exists.
-David
On Apr 4, 2007, at 4:35 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
I think that we have to make a plan.
What I think should be done before/for the release is at least:
1) fix or resolve at least the critical bugs:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=12310500&priority=2&resolution=-1
2) of course, prepare the distribution as described here:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/1wE
3) it would be nice to add a new ROOT index page to list all the
available applications (including the specialpurpose ones), give some
basic information about OFBiz (similar to the ones in the Webtools
main page, that I'd like to remove from there)
4) prepare a good press release
5) update the site's main page to announce it and update the download
page
Jacopo
Si Chen wrote:
What are the plans for doing the next OFBIZ release?
