AW: [jbpm-dev] No more jBPM 3 releases?

[Ronald van Kuijk]

2009/6/16 Tom Baeyens <tbaeyens at redhat.com>

> for making the release, there is only the effort of releasing.  that is not
> a lot of effort so we can do it once and a while.  so rest assured.  it's
> not a political decision.
>
> jbpm 3 already went through a lot of stabilization.  so there is also the
> risk that if we fix something, that we introduce another problem.
>

So it is not only the effort of releasing, but also some additional QA
(Stabilization != full QA, I know) ? Otherwise you would not be so reluctant
(besides putting in the effort to fix the issue itself)


>
> but for fixing the bugs, we are not proactively fixing all the bugs that
> people report on jbpm 3.  we currently intend to only fix those that come
> from clients.  and even for those reports we evaluate if the risk of
> introducing new problems when fixing the given bug.


But this is a different statement compared to 'there are no more jBPM3
releases planned'). Would make a lot of sense to make this fully clear in
the community. Effectively jBPM 3 goes into a maintenance mode where paying
customers drive the possibility of next releases'. But does this mean I
should not put in any fixes anymore (not that I did that a lot, but others
did) just to prevent possible regressions? Or should I only put them in
trunk? Or? Please guide us ;-)


>
>
> i think we need to spend most bugfixing efforts on jbpm 4.
>

I do not disagree with this, but I also agree with Bernd, jBPM 3 has a broad
installed base. For me, jBPM 3 should at least have one more year of more
development than what you suggest.


>
> --
> regards, tom.
>
>
> Bernd Rücker wrote:
>
>> I thought as well that there will be bug fix releases (and maybe even some
>> new features if it really make sense). Why not? There are a lot of jbpm 3.x
>> users out there which will keep using it…
>>
>>
>> *Von:* jbpm-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:
>> jbpm-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org] *Im Auftrag von *Ronald van Kuijk
>> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 16. Juni 2009 11:59
>> *An:* jbpm-dev at lists.jboss.org
>> *Betreff:* [jbpm-dev] No more jBPM 3 releases?
>>
>>
>>  >From https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPM-2263
>>
>> Tom Baeyens <
>> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=tom.baeyens%40jboss.com>
>> - 15/Jun/09 03:45 AM
>>
>> there are no more releases planned for jbpm 3
>>
>>
>> Is this true? Only SP releases for bugfixes? But isn't this a 'bug'? The
>> schema allows it.
>>
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