[Vtigercrm-developers] Changing to patch mode of release
Brian Devendorf
developer at infointegrated.com
Fri Jan 19 05:31:36 PST 2007
Richie,
Patch releases may seem easier to manage, but they really become
quite a bit more difficult. You will have to manage issues of which
patches have been installed, or coming up with a mechanism to track
patches. Then if some patches are replaced by other patches, you may
need to come up with tools to revert the patches. From the support
side of things, you will need to keep track of these patches
independently. I think the problems are going to be very similar to
the ones you saw when releasing dot releases a month apart.
I understand that there are still many issues in vtiger that need
patching, updating, and fixing. I'm sure you are noticing that there
is a significant overhead to any type of release. What I mean by this
is that you don't just decide to release and hit your Easy button.
You've got testing, validation, documentation updates, staging,
packaging, and more.
Don't put more administrative work on your group than you need to. It
reduces the effort you spend actually fixing and improving the
product. And, it "cheapens" the product. When I see a product with
many patch releases, I think, it's too bad they don't have better
control of the quality of this product.
Brian
On Jan 19, 2007, at 4:42 AM, richie wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I would like to initiate the discussion on providing patch mode of
> release post the 5.0.3.
>
> Reason for patch mode of release post 5.0.3:-
>
> Much easier format of release.
> Less pressure on team.
> Easy to identify the breakage segment(patch version that is)
> Easier to rollback the patch if need be (ie we can always say that
> pl. do not use the patch and give a better one if need be. It is
> much easier to do).
>
> I know that we have had a lot of debate about the release
> versionings and have arrived at the current one. But owing to the
> reasons mentioned above, I would like to have the convention
> flexible enough to allow patch releases too.
>
> For this to happen, what all are the areas that ought to be taken
> into consideration.
>
> Fathi, Jeff ...?
>
> Richie
>
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