Re: Release Strategy and Branch Support (was: Re: Bug Crush)

2014-10-23 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Inline Le 23/09/2014 09:26, Jacques Le Roux a écrit : Le 23/09/2014 06:35, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : On Sep 22, 2014, at 9:58 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

Re: Release Strategy and Branch Support (was: Re: Bug Crush)

2014-09-23 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 23/09/2014 06:35, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : On Sep 22, 2014, at 9:58 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > A more formal rule would be

Re: Release Strategy and Branch Support (was: Re: Bug Crush)

2014-09-22 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
On Sep 22, 2014, at 9:58 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > < official download page http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html, says that we > stabilize releases with bug fixes. It's not quite clear if we are backporting > all or only some bug fixes.>> > A more formal rule would be: * commits to the t

Re: Release Strategy and Branch Support (was: Re: Bug Crush)

2014-09-22 Thread Pierre Smits
Jacopo, Thank you for the elaborate reply. Hopefully the survey Sharan has put together, will provide the insights about what OFBiz version are being used at the moment. But, if to many of the current active community members fill in the survey as well, we might expect to see a lot of the same a

Re: Release Strategy and Branch Support (was: Re: Bug Crush)

2014-09-22 Thread Jacques Le Roux
OK I began this convo. Inline... Le 22/09/2014 21:15, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : We are maintaining somewhat similar information in these pages: http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html This is where we should be more specific and explain things better as I kinda suggested in one of my message

Re: Release Strategy and Branch Support (was: Re: Bug Crush)

2014-09-22 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
We are maintaining somewhat similar information in these pages: http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html http://www.apache.org/dist/ofbiz/ Jacopo On Sep 22, 2014, at 8:31 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: > Here are some examples of End Of Life policy statements for open source > products. > > http://wiki

Re: Release Strategy and Branch Support (was: Re: Bug Crush)

2014-09-22 Thread Ron Wheeler
Here are some examples of End Of Life policy statements for open source products. http://wiki.centos.org/About/Product http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-55-eol.html http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/eol.html http://support.rightscale.com/15-References/End_of_Support_and_End_of_Life_

Re: Release Strategy and Branch Support (was: Re: Bug Crush)

2014-09-22 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
On Sep 22, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: > Jacopo, > > Your first suggestion is a bit cumbersome. If an issue affects multiple > versions and it is not fixed in all versions, why not simply keep it open > as long as the release branch it affects is in the maintenance cycle? I have to p

Release Strategy and Branch Support (was: Re: Bug Crush)

2014-09-22 Thread Pierre Smits
Jacopo, Your first suggestion is a bit cumbersome. If an issue affects multiple versions and it is not fixed in all versions, why not simply keep it open as long as the release branch it affects is in the maintenance cycle? Your second suggestion is ambiguous. Which part of the community are you