That is true. The closest thing we've done in the ASF is a test release during incubation, which was one of the requirements to "graduate".
Very early in the life of OFBiz there were a few "official" releases, but that practice didn't last long. -David On Feb 5, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Scott Gray wrote: > All OFBiz has is nightly builds, we have release branches but we've never > done a formal official release. > > Regards > Scott > > HotWax Media > http://www.hotwaxmedia.com > > On 5/02/2010, at 4:52 PM, BJ Freeman wrote: > >> nightly builds are not for the consuming public but for testers who's >> job it is to bang away on the application and try to break it. >> so they just download an run the build. They probably are not even >> developers, just testers >> >> >> >> Ean Schuessler sent the following on 2/5/2010 1:39 PM: >>> Adam Heath wrote: >>>> I vote no for this, until there are more test cases. Ofbiz is still >>>> buggy, with old functionality being broken, or new functionality not >>>> even being tested. >>>> >>> I really do agree. It jumped out at me recently that we don't have a >>> download link for a "known to be working" build that has been thoroughly >>> tested by humans. If someone checks something in to 09.04 that breaks >>> behavior but doesn't show up in the test suite then a lot of people may >>> get a bad first impression of our software. It seems like some Selenium >>> tests are the fastest way to get some better guarantees around this. >>> Right now I'm just not super confident that the latest release will >>> always be working (though it should be). >>> >> >
