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
