Users should have the ability to know the current version of any application that he is using.
+1 to Devanshu's proposal with the solution design proposed by Taher. -- Thanks & Regards --- Arun Patidar Manager, Enterprise Software Development HotWax Systems Pvt Ltd. www.hotwaxsystems.com On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 3:06 AM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > For whom is this intended? > > For the contributors of this project? Code contributors check out (and > work with) the code from the official repo's (ASF SVN/Github git) and work > with only with revisions in their IDE of choice. And our other contributors > (document maintainers) relate more to Releases. > For adopters? They don't care about the OFBiz version, when they augment > code internally and have their own versioning definition/protocol. > OFBiz Service Providers? They apply anything their customers agree with > regarding Release Management and versioning. And each customer can have a > different Naming Convention and Protocol. > > Best regards, > > Pierre > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 at 10:54 Swapnil Mane <swapnil.m...@hotwaxsystems.com> > wrote: > >> +1 for having the version info. >> >> Taher's proposal looks reasonable to me. >> >> >> - Best Regards, >> Swapnil M Mane >> >> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Taher Alkhateeb < >> slidingfilame...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >> > I don't think it's necessary to contain the version information, but I >> > don't mind it if people find it helpful. With that being said, I >> > suggest to avoid putting this information in README.md and also to >> > avoid doing this manually. It becomes tedious and human error prone. >> > >> > My suggestion instead (if enough people want this) is to create a task >> > to publish a version file. For example: "./gradlew publishVersion" >> > would create a VERSION file that contains ofbiz version and svn >> > revision for example and the file should be ignored by the version >> > control system. >> > >> > On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Deepak Dixit >> > <deepak.di...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: >> > > I think here Devanshu talking about release that we do in zip. >> > > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/ofbiz/apache-ofbiz-16.11.03.zip >> > > >> > > >> > > Thanks & Regards >> > > -- >> > > Deepak Dixit >> > > www.hotwaxsystems.com >> > > www.hotwax.co >> > > >> > > On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Jacques Le Roux < >> > > jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: >> > > >> > >> Hi Devanshu, James, >> > >> >> > >> To see something locally on the ERP pages footer you need to run >> > "gradlew >> > >> svnInfo" before >> > >> >> > >> Jacques >> > >> >> > >> Le 25/11/2017 à 07:14, James Yong a écrit : >> > >> >> > >>> Hi Devanshu, >> > >>> >> > >>> Have you looked at the web pageâ€[image: ™]s footer? >> > >>> >> > >>> Regards, >> > >>> James Yong >> > >>> >> > >>> On 2017-11-25 13:46, Devanshu Vyas <vyas.devansh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>>> Hello Devs, >> > >>>> >> > >>>> Recently I came to know and verified that there is no specific >> > location >> > >>>> in >> > >>>> our OFBiz framework(not even in README.md) where we specify what >> > version >> > >>>> code a Dev has downloaded and currently using. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> If there is such entry or location in our framework and I missed >> it, >> > >>>> please >> > >>>> let me know. And if not, let's discuss what's the best way to >> inform >> > our >> > >>>> Devs/users about our code version. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> PS: I suggest the README.md :) >> > >>>> >> > >>>> Thanks & Regards, >> > >>>> Devanshu Vyas. >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >> >> > >> >
