+1, good idea and good timing. -- Thanks & Regards --- Arun Patidar Manager, Enterprise Software Development
HotWax Systems Pvt Ltd. www.hotwaxsystems.com On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Taher Alkhateeb < slidingfilame...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jacopo, > > I recently created a JIRA [1] to finalize the implementation of of > gradle to utilize a maven repository provided by Infra [2]. The > purpose of this maven repository as you may recall from our old > discussion [3] is to be able to publish OFBiz plugins as ZIP archives > in the repository. > > So now the question has come, how do we publish? I don't have a very > clear idea in mind, but here are some thoughts: > > - We proceed exactly as you suggested for the release branches. > - For plugins I distinguish between release branches vs actual > releases as follows > - A single release branch would contain _all_ plugins (as exists right > now) > - However, for actual plugin releases maybe we just create a tag in > version control and then publish individually and separately to maven. > > This way, we encourage people to avoid thinking of plugins as things > that you download from a branch and place manually, and instead think > of them as extra functionality that OFBiz can provide for you with a > single command on the command line (or maybe even through the UI in > the future). On a side note, I think this is going to be a great > release. We've accomplished a lot and solved quite a few bugs thanks > to the great efforts from the community. > > Oh and +1 :) > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9832 > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-13924 > [3] http://markmail.org/message/bjvqu23ofwzuk57y > > Cheers, > > Taher Alkhateeb > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Jacopo Cappellato > <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I think it is time to start thinking about if, when, how we should create > > the new release branch out of the trunk. Actually, for the first time, we > > should probably create two branches: one for the framework and one for > the > > plugins. > > What do you think? > > > > In my opinion we could try to get all the changes we want to have in the > > trunk to be included in the branch by end of November: this means that > the > > the creation of the branch could happen at the end of November. > > If this is the case then the names could be: > > release17.11-framework > > release17.11-plugins > > > > The above is for the release *branches* only, not for the actual > releases. > > We could decide at a later point if the actual releases will be shipped > as > > two separate products (e.g. "Apache OFBiz Framework 17.11.01" and "Apache > > OFBiz Plugins 17.11.01") or merged into one (e.g. "Apache OFBiz > 17.11.01"). > > > > Best regards, > > > > Jacopo >
