Re: [Dolibarr-dev] Dolibarr 3.7 freeze

[charles.fr]

If we reverse your example of increasing time, the good way is to decrease time 
between 2 versions and finally made nothing
Maybe 6month it's a good frequency for the developer, but it's not for the 
users and our customers who don't want to upgrade his ERP every 6 month for 
only 50 new features each (ok 3.7 version have a little more)

Another bad point is the timing of the January major release : many users are 
in installation and start using Dolibarr who have just installed at the end of 
year 

My position is to change the planning and add a release candidate (RC) between 
the beta and the stable version. RC version is an official test version for 
customer
We diffuse it on Dolibarr website download area between the stable and 
pre-release (Besides the alpha and beta version posted on the download area is 
3.6 not 3.7)
RC version will permit of dolibarr user (not only developer user to made more 
test)

propose the following roadmap

mai YYYY   - Beta Release (version A.B.0 beta) (freeze)
june YYYY   - Release Candidate (version A.B.0 RC)
August YYYY   - Major Release (version A.B.0)
September YYYY   - Major Release (version A.B.1)
october YYYY   - Alpha Release (version A.B+1.0 alpha)

with 8 month for development and 4 month for test


Bien cordialement,
Charles-François BENKE
http://www.benke.fr - 0637056117

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De : address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden De la part de Destailleur Laurent
Envoyé : samedi 1 novembre 2014 21:14
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Objet : Re: [Dolibarr-dev] Dolibarr 3.7 freeze

Having more time to test will not change anything. If you have more time, you 
will have also more regression and motre things to test.
In fact, if time between 2 release is increased by 2, the time neeed to test 
and upgrade a module is increased by 4 and time required for beta is also 
increased by 4 instead of 2 making finally less time to have a stable version 
to make quality tests.
That's why more and more projects are making rolling released (so a released 
every month and even weeks). But I think 6 month is a good frequency to not 
have to wait to long to get new features.
Also a roadmap must be followed as announced other wise it has no senses to 
have roadmap.




2014-10-27 0:55 GMT+01:00  <address@hidden>:
> Freeze the develop branch to start beta in not a good idea : we need 
> more time between 2 major versions (One year, not six month) to test 
> and develop ours modules.
>
> If we maintain this crazy rate of two major releases per year, I will 
> no more upgrade my modules for the February version.
>
> It's time to make quality more than quantity
>
> Bien cordialement,
> Charles-François BENKE
> http://www.benke.fr - 0637056117
>
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> De : address@hidden
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> part de Destailleur Laurent Envoyé : dimanche 26 octobre 2014 23:41 À 
> : ML Dolibarr dev Objet : [Dolibarr-dev] Dolibarr 3.7 freeze
>
>
> Just a warning to remind everybody that we are reaching end of october:
> This means the freeze of develop branch to start beta 3.7 will be done in
> less than 7 days.
>
>
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