I usually give my clients this advice:
"Once a release branch is created, support for previous releases
decreases - because volunteers tend to focus their efforts on more
recent releases."
Maybe that will help.
Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com
On 3/24/2015 11:33 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Le 24/03/2015 11:41, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :
In the download page we should also strive to have a more formal
language: maybe Sharan, Adrian or others that are fluent with English
can help here.
But apart from the above comment: do we really need this sentence in
the download page? What is the goal you are trying to achieve?
As we discussed in the list, the community does its best to backport
bugs; if a bug is not backported and a ticket is created for it with a
backported patch then a committer will pick it up and commit. Why
should we tell the users to backport themselves?
Because we don't backport all bug fixes to all living release branches,
how can I say it otherwise?
It seems to me our users should be aware of that
Jacques
Jacopo
On Mar 24, 2015, at 11:18 AM, jler...@apache.org wrote:
Author: jleroux
Date: Tue Mar 24 10:18:18 2015
New Revision: 1668834
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1668834
Log:
Adds a note about "not all bug fixes are backported to all living
release branches"
Modified:
ofbiz/site/download.html
Modified: ofbiz/site/download.html
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/site/download.html?rev=1668834&r1=1668833&r2=1668834&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- ofbiz/site/download.html (original)
+++ ofbiz/site/download.html Tue Mar 24 10:18:18 2015
@@ -61,12 +61,17 @@
</ul>
</div>
<p>
-Apache OFBiz™ is an open source product for the automation of
enterprise
+Apache OFBiz™ is an open source product for the automation of
enterprise
processes that includes framework components and business applications.
</p>
<p>
Use the links below to download Apache OFBiz releases from the
"Apache Download Mirrors" page; in that page you'll also
find instructions on how to verify the integrity of the release file
using the signature and hashes (PGP, MD5, SHA512) available for each
release.
+<p>Just as a note: despite our best efforts, not all bug fixes are
backported to all living release branches. But using
+<a
href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:changelog-panel";
target="_blank">releases logs </a> or
+<a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/";
target="_blank">commits logs </a>you should always be able to
backport yourself.
+</p>
+
</p>
<h3>Apache OFBiz 13.07.01</h3>
<p>Released in October 2014, is the first release of the 13.07
series, that has been stabilized with bug fixes since July 2013. It
is the OFBiz current stable release and users of the previous
releases are encouraged to migrate to it in order to get all the new
features.</p>
