On 07/08/2014 12:44 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
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.
The description of the patch number is missing. The description says
that 12..04 is the way that a release is named. It does not allow 12.04.04.
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)
That is not what the doc says. It says that 13.01 should be the first
release of the 13 series.
"<Minor Release Number> is a two digit sequential number: 01 (if
specified) is the first release from the branch; 02 is the second
etc...; for a given Major Release Number you should always use the
release with the highest Minor Release Number because it represents the
latest bug fix release for the Major Release Number you are using."
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
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skype: ronaldmwheeler
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