On 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? I guess you meant 11.04.05... it should be released in a few days (the voting thread is going on right now in the dev list). Approx at the same time we will also release 12.04.04. > > > 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. Major Release Number: 13.07 or 12.04 or 11.04 (they mean July 2013/ April 2012/ April 2011 i.e. the dates the release branch was created i.e. from that time one only bug fixes are backported from trunk) Jacopo > > 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 > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: [email protected] > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 >
