In the past the ASF Board asked to the OFBiz PMC to fix the release strategy of the project by providing officially voted release files thru the ASF mirrors: at that time we were pushing the users to get the trunk. Officially asking the user to use a release branch would be better than the trunk but would bring back similar concerns: an official vote is required to publish a product to the outside of the project in order to guarantee License free issues etc...
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Jacques Le Roux < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > In a recent user ML thread http://markmail.org/message/ivjocjr2ull7lwqe I > suggested we could propose our users to use a release branch strategy > rather than downloaded packages. > And that we could expose this way of doing in our download page, or maybe > better with a link to an explaining page (in details) in the wiki. > > I know it's not the recommended way of doing at the ASF. But we all know > the OFBiz differences when compared with other TLPs which are mostly libs, > and even mostly jars. > Most of us are actually using this way in their custom projects and I have > a feeling it would not only help our users but also us to support them. > > What do you think? > > Jacques > >
