Short answer trunk is not stable. That is when you are only doing bug fixes not adding new features. Some new Features are being added in sections. 1) can't mix and match 4.0 and trunk. 4.0 uses 1.42 trunk uses 1.5+ 2) You can go over the commit ML and get each commit to see what is changed. Yes the committers are suppose to check each change. However with the size of ofbiz, that usually is focused, on the area the patch effects, not all of ofbiz. Some committers seem to add code then do testing. when you find a bug test on the demo server, if you can replicate it there put in a jira. http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html
Ritesh Trivedi sent the following on 10/27/2008 7:25 PM: > Hi, > > Let me first acknowledge that I made a mistake from the beginning to go with > the latest from the trunk and not 4.0 which was the stable release. I have > not tried 4.0 again to see the differences between 4.0 and the latest. > Besides I have a few relatively minor changes that I have made into my local > ofbiz copy. > > Now the problem... I have been updating the latest since then to get the > fixes for the things broken due to new checkins and i am going in circles, > new patches seem to break a few other things and so on. > > Question is - How carefully are checkins being made/accepted? (just out of > curiosity) and does anyone know of a version - still close to latest that is > relatively stable? > > Thanks
