Re: [Dolibarr-dev] Dolibarr 5.0 freeze and new version 4.0.2

[Charles Benke]

In the star wars saga, the emperor was the one to make decisions, the Jedi had a council governing collegially…

 

May the force be with you…

 

Bien cordialement,

Charlie Benke

 

De : Dolibarr-dev [mailto:address@hidden De la part de Laurent Destailleur (aka Eldy)
Envoyé : mardi 8 novembre 2016 21:07
À : Posts about Dolibarr ERP & CRM development and coding <address@hidden>
Objet : Re: [Dolibarr-dev] Dolibarr 5.0 freeze and new version 4.0.2

 

The status of new module you mention is the status when the freeze start.

It is only at the end of the beta we can know if they are moved with stable status.

 

Also a major version is not necessarly a version with a new module. You probably decide this yourself but it is not.

 

 

So please again, stop trying to deny Dolibarr project by providing false information on this mailing list and trying to cunfusing other readers.

 

Hi community, it seems we have a new Dark Vador in Dolibarr galaxy !

 

 

 

 

 

2016-11-08 13:32 GMT+01:00 Charles Benke <address@hidden>:

As reading on module

Accountancy : experimental

Multicurrency : develop

 

So call IT as you want IS NOT  A MAJOR VERSION

 

You speak that “Version 5.0 has a very good compatibility behaviour with external modules, “ witch external modules have you tested? All present in the dolistore?

 

I would have preferred that we work more on the stability of previous major versions to continue this headlong counterproductive.

I hope them we can discuss how the project is managed, it is time after 10 years actually change ...

 

 

 

Bien cordialement,

Charlie Benke

 

De : Dolibarr-dev [mailto:dolibarr-dev-bounces+charles.fr=address@hidden] De la part de Laurent Destailleur (aka Eldy)
Envoyé : mardi 8 novembre 2016 00:11
À : ML Dolibarr dev <address@hidden>
Objet : [Dolibarr-dev] Dolibarr 5.0 freeze and new version 4.0.2

 

 

Hi Dolibarr developers.

 

 

Time to start the beta of the next major version has come. The release candidate version should be ready for January, so as usual, we must start the beta period few month ago, so now.

To follow modern pratice about namin convention, next major version followin the 4.0 will be called 5.0 and not 4.1. I still don't know why we spent so many times (10 years) to increase the second level of number used commonly to describe a minor chane when it was major release, but well, late is better than never.

 

So, starting from this week-end, the beta period for 5.0 will be launched. No new features will be added from PR.

 

As usual, "started development" are allowed to be continued to be finished for final release. Work on not stable modules are also still opened because such modules won't be visible by users.  Among works already started and that are qualified to continue to push PR that are not bu fixed, we may find:

- work on advanced accountancy (double party) module,  

- multicurrency module

- work to simplify code to support oauth

- website module

- management of a VAT code to be able to distinguish different VAT with same rate

- theme enhancement to be more responsive designed

- uniformization of the look and feel and usae of the dol_banner for all tabs.

- translation changes

- changes required to allow package generations

 

After the freeze, new features will be suspended until the branch for 5.0 is created. Then merging PR for new features will be possible again into develop branch.

Also, architecture, reenginering, or best practice code enhancements will be discarded during this period. Instead any help is welcome to fix all opened bug: See https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr/issues

More information on what a "freeze" mean: https://wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php/Category:RoadMap

 

Version 5.0 has a very good compatibility behaviour with external modules, so you can already check your external modules are still working with this version.

 

A Changelog (not yet detailed with coming new features) is available in the current development branch that will be used to start the freeze to give information on what was changed and may need attention of external developers or upgraders.

 

 

Also, note that a maintenance version, version 4.0.2 was released few days ago to provide recent fixes available for branch 4.0.

 

More information on what a "maintenance version" mean: https://wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php/Category:RoadMap

 

 

Laurent Destailleur, aka Eldy

 

 

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