Actually, the delay was to give time for several refactorings to be
backported from the trunk to the release branch.
A release branch can be created at any time by any committer, so the
timing has nothing to do with the number of available committers.
Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com
On 8/6/2014 8:00 PM, Pierre Smits wrote:
Ron,
In 2009 or thereabouts the PMC decided to adopt the Ubuntu way of numbering
OFBiz releases. Since then every year in april a release was cut. But as
the number of active committers is decreasing the time to release a cut
takes more time. Last year broke with that policy, resulting in a release
been cut with number 13.07.
Regards,
Pierre Smits
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On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]>
wrote:
https://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html page needs updating.
Is the 12.04.05 release date closer to being known?
The description of the Release number says that release numbers consist of
2 parts
"The naming convention for OFBiz releases is*<Major Release
Number>.<Minor Release Number>"*
but the releases seem to have 3 digits. Patch description missing.
The 13.x.x series part of the page puzzles me.
It seems to indicate that some early versions 13.0.0, 13.07.01 should
already be able to be downloaded.
It also seems to indicate that the 13.x.x will be released in 2014 which
means that it should have a 14.x.x release number.
I am not sure why a non-standard pattern of release identification was
adopted but it is confusing and now inconsistent.
It leads to the impression that the project is not active since it missed
2013 altogether.
Would it not be possible/"good thing" to adopt a standard pattern of
releases where the first digit indicates major change with some risk of
serious work required to upgrade, second digit indicating significant new
functionality but no change to the existing data structure or functions
that are not changing and the last digits indicating a minor bug fix?
Ron
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