Adempiere Release Management

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Some basic rules of release management in Adempiere project as of 3.4.x releases

History

In the start of Adempiere, developers agreed that release should be done based on functionality and that Trunk version in SVN should be kept "production stable" at all times.

While this model is nice to developers it is quite troublesome for implementors, as they don't have long term production ready releases with enough bug fixes.

So some of us proposed new so called time based release management strategy and been given green light to go with it for upcoming 3.4.x releases.

Basic principles

Release Branch

For time based release management basic principle is, that at some point in time we decide and make so called Release Branch. This release branch is spin off of main development which is happening in trunk.

Release branch main goals are:

  • to provide place for stabilization
  • to provide place for QA
  • to provide long lived place for bug fixes in the life of stable release branch.