-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 someone set up a jiras list for the release. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ/fixforversion/12313602 those jiras that need to be completed. How about creating jiras for all these then someone can be pointed to it as things they can do to help.
David E Jones sent the following on 3/26/2009 9:19 AM: > > I'm thinking we should delay the release branch for a couple of weeks. > Some reasons: > > 1. more opportunity to collaborate with the PRC on the press release > > 2. time to find and fix more issue relating to the new security policy > of no fields submitted to service-backed events in the URL, ie the link > to form conversion thingy that is underway (I thought we were closer > than we are, and I'm guessing it will take a little time for all of > these to shake out) > > 3. time to get myportal generalized and moved to framework > > 4. time to get the new OFBiz home page and sub-content in place, and > time for more people (outside of the PMC so far) to offer feedback on it > > 5. opportunity to compile a larger list of new features (basically > effort going into expanding the "Main New Features" page), and perhaps > other marketing related things in and outside of OFBiz (ie: if you are a > service or derivative work or whatever provider, this is your chance to > fancy up your web site and other things before the PR push related to > the release branch!) > > 6. other things? > > In short, there are a few things up in the air that would be nice to > have happen around the same time as the release branch. It's true that > the cutoff date for the release branch is somewhat arbitrary, or in > other words that features in the branch aren't as big a deal as the > focus for the release branch is stabilization and not new features. > Still, this release branch should be the main stabilized branch for the > next 1-2 years for OFBiz, so fixing issues we know are in the trunk > before the branch will help things considerably. > > We haven't voted on an official date or anything, and won't until the > actual date to release, so this is all about communication for the sake > of coordination. > > Comments more than welcome. In fact, I demand that you comment right > now! ;) > > -David > > > On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:32 PM, David E Jones wrote: > >> >> I've started putting together some ideas for the press release for our >> upcoming release branch. The time is a little tight... I had planned >> on doing this last week but it got lost among other things. >> >> To facilitate collaboration on this I've created a confluence page for >> it here: >> >> http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Press+Release+for+Release+Branch+9.3 >> >> >> Before writing the actual press release I thought we should do some >> brainstorming, so please add thoughts there (if you are a committer) >> or respond to this message with other thoughts. >> >> I'm going to send a message to the ASF PRC to ask for their help and >> guidance on this. It may be that they write the actual press release, >> so our brainstorming thoughts and details we add there are probably >> the most important part of what we as a community put into this. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -David >> >> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJy7n6rP3NbaWWqE4RAnjbAJ0TNoS18gpyFVgHS8aXc05qUkhCtgCff0pc qFpzfQVH6zJaeoTp3rkIREE= =aWP3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
