Are there any open source projects that are not driven by a single company that successfully implement feature freeze releases AND would have the complexity of feature advancements that OFBiz does (this would exclude most, if not all, Apache projects as most of them are one trick ponies, so to speak)? If there are, maybe we should see how they best accopmlish this.
--- Si Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, > > Without coordinating a feature freeze between the > major contributors, > it would be very very difficult, especially for less > experienced > "volunteers", to maintain the release branches and > fix the bugs. > From my personal experience trying to create the > opentaps releases, > a good release can only be created if the original > version is > reasonably stable and if the core developers > significantly support > the effort by helping to push the bug fixes from > trunk to the release > branch. > > On the issue of stability: > > 1. I propose that we put this > http://jira.undersunconsulting.com/ > browse/OFBIZ-500 back into the main code base. It > addressed a > typecast issue with field-to-field. > > 2. I think we should take a vote: how many people > would like to keep > current code "as is", so the "OID" data type (used > for storing images > and content) works with Derby and not PostgreSQL, > versus making a > change which would make it work with PostgreSQL and > not Derby? > > 3. I'll just keep my fingers crossed about the > Geronimo transactions > manager then. > > Si > > > On Jul 24, 2006, at 10:13 AM, David E Jones wrote: > > > > >
