And recently it has been critiquited by a member of the infra team that we used the word Release for non official Apache release
(Gavin has fixed the wording since then)
It remains that testing thoroughly from the UI a beast like OFBis is not the same than testing most of the other Apache projects
which do not include as much as business level code (if any)
A temporary solution could be to "certified" only the framework, but we have still to do an effort to extract it. Then afterward we
could "certify" component by component...
My 2cts
Jacques
From: "David E Jones" <[email protected]>
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).
