Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Suggestions to be discussed by Community

We have received an interesting document with detailed reasoning about navigation functionalities and interface for OpenERP. I created a blueprint for this, and here is a direct link to the PDF.

Please have a look at the document and share your thoughts, either on this forum topic (if you are interested in OpenERP and ergonomics) or via OpenERP's Ergonomy Experts mailing list (if you feel like an expert on OpenERP ergonomics).

We take the opportunity to remind you that we welcome and support this kind of material, whether about ergonomics or any other subject. For such documents, we would proceed like for this one: create a blueprint for tracking in Launchpad, link to a specification or draft in the wiki (since Launchpad whiteboard is not well suited for this) and discuss about it in the experts mailing lists and the forum.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Bazaar upgrade

All of our main branches (trunk and 5.0) have been upgraded to Bazaar's last and more efficient format.

You will need Bazaar version 2.0 or more recent to be able to fully interact with those upgraded branches. You can check your Bazaar version by issuing bzr --version in a shell.

Here is how to upgrade if you need to:
  • You will find the instructions to install Bazaar 2 for your platform on Bazaar download page.
  • Make a backup of the branches you need to upgrade.
  • Upgrade the relevant branches with this command: bzr upgrade --2a

Friday, February 12, 2010

New release process ongoing

As discussed in a previous post, we have been rethinking our release process.

We are laying the stress on active reviews and follow-ups of merge proposals in the stable and development branches. Our Quality Team will ensure that this process goes smoothly.

Everybody can still propose patches and develop in his own branches (it is going to be even easier than before thanks to the repository format upgrade). And to help the Drivers Team, the Quality Team will create the needed milestones and releases on a more regular basis.

By the way, the next minor stable release of OpenERP 5.0 is planned for the 1st March 2010. This version will bring some fixes to the server, the client and the addons.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Repository upgrade

We are going to upgrade the repositories format to the 2a version. This will hopefully reduce the size of the checkout, speed up some operations and make it possible to use stacked branches reliably.

From now on, Bazaar 2.0+ will be required to contribute to OpenERP.