+1 for #1. +1 for #2. Thanks Jacopo for the detailed email. It is very helpful!
Kind Regards Ashish Vijaywargiya HotWax Systems - est. 1997 On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Jacopo Cappellato < jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > as you may know we are working at migrating the build scripts of the OFBiz > trunk from Ant to Gradle. > Together with this important change we are also modifying, for policy > reasons, the way we distribute the external dependencies (i.e., the jar > files needed by OFBiz): the required jars will be downloaded at build time. > Since these changes are not bug fixes, the current plan is to do these > changes only in the trunk and do not backport them to the active branches, > that are currently: > > * 13.07 > * 14.12 > * 15.12 > > However, we will still have to modify these branches by removing the > external jar files and download them using Ivy. > > The first concern is that we will have to work on and stabilize two fronts: > Ivy for the 3 current release branches and Gradle for the trunk and the > future branches. > The second concern is that, as a consequence, we will have, for several > years, significant differences in the setup/build steps between the old > releases and the new ones that could cause confusion and regressions when > bugs are backported. > > We have already issued 3 releases from the 13.07 branch and we have a > tentative plan to issue one more release around February 2017 that would be > the last release of this series. > As regards 14.12 and 15.12 branches, no releases have been issued yet. > > Based on these details I would like you to consider the following > decisions: > > 1) anticipate the end of life of the release branch 13.07 at now; we would > not issue the fourth release as initially planned > 2) once stabilized, backport to 14.12 and 15.12 all the changes required to > build the system and download its dependencies with Gradle > > Please express your opinion on each of them separately, since they are > independent (i.e., you could agree/disagree on the first/second/both). > > Thanks, > > Jacopo >
