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[Raphael Valyi <rvalyi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

if people remember correctly how it went for v7: is was "officially
released" on December 21th of 2012, the date announced 3 months before. But
then, during the first 4 months of v7,  during 2103, there have been A LOT
of bug fixes and very often some fixes had to be hacky for the whole
release life cycle just because of the "no schema change" dogma
(res.partner thing, anyone?).

So I would say, please let's don't be dogmatic about a release date. It's
bad to be 6 months late on release schedule (as it was for v7 initially
announced much earlier), but it's much better to be a little late and have
early adopter test deeply and report bugs and contribute fixes before
freezing things for 18 months. So please no pressure to release exactly on
date. Some good complex projects do 6 RC's before declaring something
stable and there is no magic, unless you have a test coverage of 100% with
very clear specifications (which we don't have), it's about the only way to
have something both "stable" and usable for later.

Also, in the future, I would love to see more loose coupling in the Odoo
components so that core stuff can have a stable slow release cycle (like
the server, the ORM, the API, the base module, even the account module...)
while innovative stuff like the web_* modules would have their chance to
evolve without freezing for 18 months in some immature state and without
either changing along with things that third parties (localizations,
verticals etc..) would expect stable enough to be sustainable both as a
business or as a final user.

Regards and kudo for v8 so far.


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Raphaël Valyi
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Josef Kaser <Josef.Kaser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Antony,
>
> what does this mean for the release date of v8? It's quite clear that it
> was not released on July 7th...
>
> Regards
> Josef
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Openerp-community [mailto:openerp-community-bounces+josef.kaser=
> inox-tech.de@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Antony Lesuisse
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 6. Juli 2014 18:13
> An: openerp-community
> Betreff: [Openerp-community] new api, v8 release
>
> The new api is now merged and the 8.0 branch has been pushed on github.
> Most of the performance issues we had with the new api are now fixed and
> the speed is roughly the same. We should see improvements as we move on to
> convert the whole codebase to the new api (less switches from v8 <-> old).
>
> We are currently migrating to the new branch (internally and on the saas).
> Here is a list of things still to do:
>
> - exporting translations
> - rename in a backward compatible way openerp -> odoo
> - fix the packaging
> - fix apps instalation
> - fix bugs that we will discover while migrating our online userbase
>
> Once this is done we will publish the new packages. In the mean time you
> may already start your development on v8 as the database schema and api is
> now frozen. We might break it if we find a huge problem that requires an
> api or schema change, but this is unlikely.
>
> I want to congratulate my team, the Odoo RD, for the tremendous work they
> did on this release.
>
> I also want to thank the community for their contributions, feedback and
> their trust.
>
> There was a lot of changes the last two months. I think the results are
> overwhelmingly positive. Many of you have already noticed, since the github
> switch, patches are processed much more quickly and we are able to keep the
> rhythm. We plan to continue improving the contribution process.
>
> This is just a short email, olivier will keep your informed more verbosely.
>
> Dont hesitate to give your feedback or ask questions.
>
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