Maybe this question can help get this discussion flowing:
For everyone who is interested in seeing this release happen, what result do you want to see from the release?
There may be other questions that are important, but if we could get some feedback on this one, that would help with something more than "whenever we want to" for the planning side of this.
-David On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Si Chen wrote:
Don't you have a 35-hour work week limit in France? Jacques Le Roux wrote:XP advise to work no more than 40 hours a week. Realist ? I hope to do it one day :o) JacquesSo far my solicitations for opinions on this have yieldedapproximately 0 responses. That being the case, it will happen when Ior someone gets interested enough in it to do the branch. Also, without responses the branch will basically just include whatever it includes. No specific features have been listed for implementation before the branch. No specific bugs have been listed for fixing before the branch. For my part I won't be getting aggressive on this until late May or early June. I simply don't have the time (eighty hour work weeks,plus tax season, plus I'm getting married in three weeks and the week after is JavaOne...). So yeah, the timing is just a tad inconvenient.Still, if any one of the PMC members wants to drive this, I'll certainly support it in spirit and in effort where I can. -David On Apr 16, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Si Chen wrote:So what are the plans right now for starting a release? David E. Jones wrote:Here is that document for OFBiz: http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Release+Plan It hasn't been changed in a while, and it is clear about the preliminary nature of an initial release based on a release branch, but there is no real name for it yet. I guess my thought was really in two parts: the fact that the initial release isn't a big deal and shouldn't have press/marketing activity around it, and that we need to come up with a name or a way of denoting the preliminary nature of the initial release from the branch. In general the nature of OFBiz and therefore the release process is somewhat different from more infrastructure oriented projects, even those at the ASF, so how this all works out over time is still up in the air and what we have in the Release Plan is just our best guess and effort based on current understanding oflimitations, resources, motivations of community participants, etc.-David On Apr 4, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Raj Saini wrote: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?
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