[Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-20 Thread Raphaël Valyi
Hello, The community doesn't spend a lot of time currently on bug planning because we still can't do it efficiently unless you do what I list here: ** problems for 5.0.x bug planning ** We can't plan bugs on 5.0.x releases because we don't know any release calendar. 5.0.7 was announced a

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-20 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Dimecres, 20 de gener de 2010, Raphaël Valyi va escriure: > Hello, > > The community doesn't spend a lot of time currently on bug planning because > we still can't do it efficiently unless you do what I list here: snip > I talked about that with Fabien, Quentin and Christophe and we all agree

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-20 Thread Raphaël Valyi
Hello Albert, The current situation is that most integrators that have a critic mass have there own branch of OpenERP with their own fixes instead of the Tiny branch: example include: - Syleam - CampToCamp - Almacom - Hellug - Chricar? - Axelor/Tiny themselves with branches like https://code.launc

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-20 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Dijous, 21 de gener de 2010, Raphaël Valyi va escriure: > Thoughts? I think if we created a stable community branch we could: - Get the same fixes tiny is currently doing (those 10 commits a day). - Because of the "two-step" commits we would revise, discuss and maybe detect some of the regressi

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-20 Thread Raphaël Valyi
Albert, if we do so, say in Mars 2010 and we have a good parallel 5.2 and Tiny their own 5.2 too. If there is a big delta on fundamental things like how to handle rounding, how modules are split together (not sure the tax_include modules are worth as externals, not sure, mrp should depend on hr ju

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-20 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Dijous, 21 de gener de 2010, Raphaël Valyi va escriure: > Albert, > > if we do so, say in Mars 2010 and we have a good parallel 5.2 and Tiny > their own 5.2 too. If there is a big delta on fundamental things like how > to handle rounding, how modules are split together (not sure the > tax_inc

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-21 Thread Ferdinand Gassauer
Am Donnerstag 21 Januar 2010 01:37:35 schrieb Albert Cervera i Areny: > A Dijous, 21 de gener de 2010, Raphaël Valyi va escriure: > > Albert, I think we have to consider * OpenERP (as any other) must comply to legal and audit requirements (top priority) * OpenERP partners contribute (code, fee) an

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-21 Thread P. Christeas
On Wednesday 20 January 2010, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: > Maybe it would be better for tiny and the community to have one > openerp-server and openerp-addons branches owned by community-leaders or > another restricted group that would do their own priorization and > schedules? I'm not sure,

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-21 Thread Zyphos
About migrating to 5.2, after some tests yesterday, I noticed that 5.2 isn't ready at all. Some menus are missing. Due to the new filter method, and new approach (wich is the good one for me too) to have less menu. I agree with Raphael with the fact that 2 branches are going to have a big delta.

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-21 Thread Jan Verlaan - Veritos
I do mostly agree with P. Christeas, It would be outrageous to have a official stable release and a community maintained "super-stable" release. Here also we would run into troubles when Tiny doesn't accept (a part of) our super-stable release merged into the official stable release. From marke

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-21 Thread Jan Verlaan - Veritos
Op 21-01-10 10:26, Zyphos schreef: So, if Tiny has its own branch for his customers use, why Community members can't join the OpenERP Quality Team ? Most of current members of this team have a very low karma. I think that OpenERP Quality Team should be indeed restricted to very few people but

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-21 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Dijous, 21 de gener de 2010, Jan Verlaan - Veritos va escriure: > I do mostly agree with P. Christeas, > > It would be outrageous to have a official stable release and a community > maintained "super-stable" release. > Here also we would run into troubles when Tiny doesn't accept (a part > of) o

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Joël Grand-Guillaume
Hi ! For the good of all, Tiny must keep the lead on the main branch, saving time for everyone. Having our own branch here @ Camptocamp cost us time and money. Could be much better for everyone if we could avoid that ! My point is, with simple little details, we can achieve that ! I think the

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Niels Huylebroeck
This whole discussion seems to revolve around power, who has it, who wants it and which is better for the project on the long and short term. To simplify the discussion I will refer to the *trunk* if we're talking about long term and *stable* if we are talking about short term goals. Who has pow

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Sharoon Thomas
Hi All, As Joel said "Tiny must keep the lead on the main branch, saving time for everyone." Its necessary to find a good workflow to implement this. For example: The bug of 'Exceptions not being classes' in py2.6 was fixed in orm and osv by me about 6 weeks back and proposed for a merge. Yeste

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread P. Christeas
On Friday 22 January 2010, Niels Huylebroeck wrote: > This whole discussion seems to revolve around power, who has it, who > wants it and which is better for the project on the long and short term. >... I think this whole discussion is driven by the limitations of the current VCS, which turns out

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Joël Grand-Guillaume
Hi, > I think this whole discussion is driven by the limitations of the current > VCS, > which turns out to be centralized in an unproductive way. > I think the Bazaar VCS is may be not perfect, but certainly not the source of trouble... Even if some feature are missing in this one, We have a

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Niels Huylebroeck
P. Christeas wrote: Trying to control access to a limited set of branches, and then endlessly discussing about what each branch should contain, is the same plague that Subversion had introduced in OSS projects. That plague is not technical nor VCS bound, it's just the fact that Tiny wants an

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Joël Grand-Guillaume
> To conclude: > Opensource works because it should have a fast turnaround, release early, > release often, repeat that mantra and realize it's full potential. +1 :) ! -- Joël Grand-Guillaume OpenERP Consultant Business Solutions Camptocamp SA PSE A, CH-1015 Lausanne www.camptocamp.com

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Divendres, 22 de gener de 2010, Joël Grand-Guillaume va escriure: > For the good of all, Tiny must keep the lead on the main branch, saving > time for everyone. Having our own branch here @ Camptocamp cost us time > and money. Could be much better for everyone if we could avoid that ! snip >

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Dijous, 21 de gener de 2010, P. Christeas va escriure: > On Thursday 21 January 2010, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: > > I just wanted to say that I share your worries. At the same time we don't > > want a "community branch" because it could become a "community fork", > > but currently there are

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Niels Huylebroeck
Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: It's not a discussion on *how* something should be solved. It's simply that Tiny does not have enough resources to fix things we all agree on how should be fixed. My personal experience with Tiny is more of the sense that even if you fix it yourself (and after

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Divendres, 22 de gener de 2010, Niels Huylebroeck va escriure: > Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: > > It's not a discussion on *how* something should be solved. It's simply > > that Tiny does not have enough resources to fix things we all agree on > > how should be fixed. > > My personal experience

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread P. Christeas
On Friday 22 January 2010, you wrote: > Although I personally also prefer git over bazaar I think we need to take > into account several things: It currently is only the practical side (I don't claim it to be the ultimate solution), but I may have some answer to your concerns: > - Though a good

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Jan Verlaan - Veritos
Has someone asked Tiny already to let the community commit their fixes into the so called "stable" which is actually un-stable? Just to legitimate that we have no other choice then to branch to a new community bugfix-release. I'm a little bit worried about the consequences it could have, like th

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Niels Huylebroeck
Jan Verlaan - Veritos wrote: Has someone asked Tiny already to let the community commit their fixes into the so called "stable" which is actually un-stable? Just to legitimate that we have no other choice then to branch to a new community bugfix-release. I'm a little bit worried about the conse

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Jan Verlaan - Veritos
I totally agree with your exposition, Niels :-). But wouldn't it be nice IF community AND Tiny could work in same branch? That would be a win-win situation. Both parties don't have to backport to each version. From that point of view I asked my previous question: " Has someone asked Tiny alrea

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Niels Huylebroeck
Jan Verlaan - Veritos wrote: I totally agree with your exposition, Niels :-). But wouldn't it be nice IF community AND Tiny could work in same branch? That would be a win-win situation. Both parties don't have to backport to each version. >From that point of view I asked my previous question:

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Ferdinand Gassauer
In respect of getting patches in - it's probably a question of "karma" - (not necessary the one in Launchpad.) Very often my "little", often trivial patches get now integrated very soon (some days) thanks to Jay. So TIny makes a big effort compared to some time ago. for some more complex patc

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Savyn Vydelingum
-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management In respect of getting patches in - it's probably a question of "karma" - (not necessary the one in Launchpad.) Very often my "little", often trivial patches get now integrated very soon

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Raphaël Valyi
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote: > In respect of getting patches in - it's probably a question of "karma" - > (not necessary the one in Launchpad.) > > Very often my "little", often trivial patches get now integrated very soon > (some days) thanks to Jay. > BTW, I hope

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Niels Huylebroeck
2010/1/22 Raphaël Valyi > 5) Finally, yes, helping CampToCamp to build a decent testuite with > OERPScenario https://launchpad.net/oerpsenario is a large part of the > solution. > > Yes, I believe good testing is critical, but how professional does it look when there is a typo in the project name

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-22 Thread Raphaël Valyi
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Niels Huylebroeck wrote: > > > 2010/1/22 Raphaël Valyi > > 5) Finally, yes, helping CampToCamp to build a decent testuite with >> OERPScenario https://launchpad.net/oerpsenario is a large part of the >> solution. >> >> Yes, I believe good testing is critical, but

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-23 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Divendres, 22 de gener de 2010, Raphaël Valyi va escriure: > 2) I see that some of you more or less support the idea of the branch X I > defined: a stable branch synch'ed with 5.0 head with extra backports Tiny > doesn't want / can't assume. If only backports can get in, then that's > pretty easy

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-23 Thread Raphaël Valyi
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: > A Divendres, 22 de gener de 2010, Raphaël Valyi va escriure: > > 2) I see that some of you more or less support the idea of the branch X I > > defined: a stable branch synch'ed with 5.0 head with extra backports Tiny > > doesn't want

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-23 Thread Jan Verlaan - Veritos
ok, most reply's support a new stable_bugfix branch. Some additional questions that needs an answer i guess; * Do we maintain the tracker on this branch? * Do we maintain translations on this branch? * If community reports bugs, where should they report them? On current stable or ne

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-23 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Dissabte, 23 de gener de 2010, Raphaël Valyi va escriure: > Sorry, but last counter-example of this is less than 10 minutes ago, > Syleam vetoing again one more merge proposal: > https://code.launchpad.net/~openerp-commiter/openobject-addons/trunk-extra- > addons/+merge/14302 > > Again, I can't

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-23 Thread Jan Verlaan - Veritos
Hmm, that's also not the case here. Due to the fact that half of Europe plus many other countries like US needs this module for stock accounting, it is at least strange that this merge is rejected by one person. When the problem did arise and the impact was clear (many countries), FP jumped int

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-23 Thread Albert Cervera i Areny
A Dissabte, 23 de gener de 2010, Jan Verlaan - Veritos va escriure: > Hmm, that's also not the case here. > Due to the fact that half of Europe plus many other countries like US > needs this module for stock accounting, it is at least strange that this > merge is rejected by one person. > When the

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-23 Thread Savyn Vydelingum
: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Albert Cervera i Areny mailto:alb...@nan-tic.com>> wrote: A Divendres, 22 de gener de 2010, Raphaël Valyi va escriure: > 2) I see that some of you mor

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-23 Thread Raphaël Valyi
Hello Savyn, 2010/1/23 Savyn Vydelingum > Hi Raphaël and Everyone, > your mail was private but from the greeting I think it was actually meant to be public, so did I (may be you are not part of the list, which seems reasonable if as Tiny wanted we want to restrict it to people having a certain

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-23 Thread Savyn Vydelingum
haël Valyi [rva...@gmail.com] Sent: 23 January 2010 20:58 To: Savyn Vydelingum Cc: openerp-community-leaders@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management Hello Savyn, 2010/1/23 Savyn Vydelingum mailto:sa...@publicus-sol

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-23 Thread Christophe Simonis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/01/10 21:06, Jan Verlaan - Veritos wrote: > Hmm, that's also not the case here. > Due to the fact that half of Europe plus many other countries like US > needs this module for stock accounting, it is at least strange that this > merge is rejected

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-24 Thread P. Christeas
On Saturday 23 January 2010, Raphaël Valyi wrote: > Sorry, but last counter-example of this is less than 10 minutes ago, > Syleam vetoing again one more merge proposal: >... Some, totally subjective, thoughts: - Patch rejection is good. I've enjoyed working in projects where a patch will be reject

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-24 Thread Sharoon Thomas
Hi all, Just another example I want to point out: I proposed a merge correcting the database issues in non locale environment on the 12th of January: https://code.launchpad.net/~sharoonthomas/openobject-server/patchfor_postgressql_environnonutf8/+merge/17222 The merge is approved and status chan

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-24 Thread Christophe Simonis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/01/10 11:34, Sharoon Thomas wrote: > Hi all, > > Just another example I want to point out: > > I proposed a merge correcting the database issues in non locale environment > on the 12th of January: > https://code.launchpad.net/~sharoonthomas/ope

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-24 Thread Sharoon Thomas
Christophe, I had clearly mentioned its NOT ABOUT KARMA for which nobody in this discussion/list cares the least bit. I trust your answer and if I do it then the question is: You(Tiny) wasted time and effort fixing something which was already fixed and requested for a merge The bug was opened o

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-25 Thread Jan Verlaan - Veritos
Sharoon, i think you hit with your doubts the hart of this discussion. At least several community members I spoke in the Netherlands have the same doubts together with most of the others here in the mailinglist. The rest of the discussion held is about a possible solution to overcome these dou

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-25 Thread Niels Huylebroeck
Jan Verlaan - Veritos wrote: i think you hit with your doubts the hart of this discussion. At least several community members I spoke in the Netherlands have the same doubts together with most of the others here in the mailinglist. The rest of the discussion held is about a possible solution t

Re: [Openerp-community-leaders] Simple things we need from Tiny for better bug planning/management

2010-01-25 Thread Joël Grand-Guillaume
Hi ! I agree with Jan Verlaan, The best solution is that the community has the commit right on the main stable branch. The official release is just a tag on a specific revision. Other project Open Source are running like this for years now, and it works well as long as things are discussed !