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[Stefan Rijnhart <stefan@xxxxxxxx>]

>     2012/11/5 Carlos Liébana <carlos.liebana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:carlos.liebana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>
>         Hello,
>
>         I'm founding a lot of bugs with fix released but not being
>         merged in the main branch. This is leading us and I suppose
>         the rest of companies to have our own branch with those merges
>         applied.
>
>         But, I suppose with OpenERP SA totally focused in v7, maybe we
>         all could join efforts and make this a community task. What do
>         you think?
>
>         I suppose the first step would be to have an initial list with
>         those pending merges / bugs that we would like to have fixed.
>         I can start a Google Doc if this is of your interest.

Hi Carlos,

as we all know, the current bug policy of OpenERP SA has the following 
results:

- Bugs fixed by the community are not applied to the stable version
- Bugs fixed by OpenERP developers through OPW are not merged with the 
stable version or after a very long delay

Therefore, the stable version of OpenERP is not usable without merging 
at least those fixes that affect you.

As you have observed on twitter, Therp maintains their own branch of 
OpenERP 6.1 that contains additional fixes that are contributed on 
Launchpad. Many of those fixes we have conrtibuted ourselves and we 
expect them to be in OpenERP 7.0. Because we use a distinct 
'therp-backports' project we can use the Launchpad bug tracker to track 
the separate statuses of the bugs in the official OpenERP branches and 
our own.

Many other implementators maintain their own branches but they do not 
use Launchpad to manage the issues. Perhaps it would be better to join 
forces and participate in a shared community project to backport fixes 
to stable versions of OpenERP. Therp for one would be happy to join such 
an initiative. The usual flow of issues -> branches -> merge requests 
should be sufficient to maintain quality control as long as the parties 
involved indeed take the trouble of reviewing each others' proposals.

So yes, please create a Google Doc and we will comment on that.

Cheers,
Stefan.