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Bilgin
On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:19 PM, 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