Hi David, this sounds fine...thanks for taking the lead in this, excellent!
I do not quite understand what idea you have moving the myportal into the framework because it think most of it is already there? regards Hans On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 10:19 -0600, David E Jones wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates
