Le 07/08/2014 14:19, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
On 06/08/2014 5:18 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
My only concern about the versioning pattern is that it looks to be
non-standard and does not follow the practice of other Apache products.
Yes I know, I'm the one who pushed for this versioning pattern, which follows
the Ubuntu way.
The idea is with a year and month in the release version you have more
information than in something like 7.0.75, you know when it has been freezed
Each ASF project is free to use its own versioning pattern
I am trying to point out that the documentation is inconsistent within the page
and seems not to match reality.
It needs to be updated by someone who knows the truth and can fix the places
where it needs it.
I know the truth :p.
And nothing need to be fixed
You can apologize, I'll not mind :p
If pointing out errors or shortcomings in the documentation is "ranting". I will try to
"rant" as constructively as possible.
Yes thanks, but be sure to understand before, else you will get some other RTFMs
Jacques
Ron
Jacques
Le 06/08/2014 21:18, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
The page should be changed to reflect the actual policy.
13.07 seems like an odd way to number the first release of the 13 major
version. I don't see it in the distribution page.
I certainly makes it more difficult to understand and makes it harder to use
any of the Maven Release tools
I guess that it does put some pressure on the PMC to get stuff done since the
second digit has to be selected at the start of the release.
You are committing to a release month before you start the work.
Ron
On 06/08/2014 3:00 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]
<mailto:[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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