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[Pedro Manuel Baeza Romero <pedro.baeza@xxxxxxxxx>]

@Nhomar, changes that you are mentioning are for v9, but for v7-v8 it's
very easy to keep compatibility.

Indeed, automated tests can avoid the contras exposed for the
double-version branch (check validity for both versions), so even better
for this approach.

What do you think?

Regards.


2014-06-14 20:21 GMT+02:00 Nhomar Hernández <nhomar@xxxxxxxxx>:

>
> 2014-06-14 12:38 GMT-05:00 Pedro Manuel Baeza Romero <
> pedro.baeza@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> That's why Ana is asking for this openly and to discuss at global
>> community the best approach to follow.
>>
>> Regards
>>
> I think as comment at margin that this approach to maintain both seudo
> compatibles is good but will not be possible for too much time.
>
> A re-write on account.tax is comming
> <https://github.com/odoo-dev/odoo/commits/master-new-account-tax-tpa>
> which will generate some important improvements that will allow us
> configure better some specific localizations.
>
> My advice is (not ruled yet by OCA but it is what we are doing):
>
> You should maintain separate branches for 2 versions with continuos PR or
> Merge from 7 to 8 and 8 evolving with new models.
>
> What we did for MX and VE was develop 100% of test with the user cases we
> now are working perfectly, then, we we migrate is a matter of fix the tests
> which are red on runbot.
>
> With this apporoach you get.:
>
> 1.- You can migrate in some moment 7.0 and trunk bzr branches to 7.0 and
> master to github branches (as odoo did) when you think is the moment.
> 2.- We (at vauxoo) are preparing the runbot for v8 to manage several
> modules repositories (discussed already with odo@openerp and in process
> of devel and/or delegate to us this development not decided yet).
> 3.- You can think in re-write what you need freely on trunk.
> 4.- Prepare your migration with some script or so on.
>
> Regards.
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