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[Ray Carnes - Implementation Strategy <rcarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK everyone, so now we can all calm down, stop making things up and stop
making people wrong for just doing their jobs - doing great work on a
great product.

:)

-----Original Message-----
From: Openerp-community
[mailto:openerp-community-bounces+rcarnes=ursainfosystems.com@lists.launch
pad.net] On Behalf Of Olivier Dony
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 11:20 AM
To: openerp-community
Subject: Re: [Openerp-community] new api, v8 release

Hi,

Quick update on the 8.0 release progress:
- the migration scripts for 8.0 are finished, and Odoo.com should be
upgraded in the coming days
- the new packaging is almost finished, new nightly builds should appear
soon on nightly.odoo.com
- the export of the translations is being worked on, but still requires
some work to correctly export and manage translations for Website-related
resources (web pages, qweb templates, etc.). We will make an announcement
as soon as translators can proceed with completing the translations.
- the namespace renaming of openerp->odoo is ready (backwards compatible),
but not merged yet
- many bugs have been squashed in 8.0RC already, many regressions fixed,
and several of these improvements made runbot 8.0 builds go from 25+min
down to 15min including the full web crawling test and JS tour. Those
builds also require close to 20% less SQL queries, while 8.0 was already
doing much less than 7.0 thanks to the new API.

Many contributors have been testing the 8.0RC and helping us by sending
pull requests, that's very helpful and we'll be sure to process them all,
thanks!

By the way the process to release 8.0 has not changed, we're sticking to
what we decided for saas-X series. 8.0 is just a regular saas-X branch:
   7.0 -> saas-1 -> saas-2 -> saas-3 -> (saas-4) -> (saas-5) -> 8.0 ->
saas-6...

And that's the very reason why 8.0 final is not released yet: it must go
through the same stabilization process as all saas branches, even if that
makes us miss some announced dates.

It takes longer than we expected this time because the 8.0 RC branch is
much harder to stabilize than the previous saas-X branches, due to two
extremely large changesets: the new WMS and the new API.
Those are giant leaps that needed to happen at some point, and better now
than later, as few would have been interested in a 8.0 LTS release without
them.
We'll have to live with 8.0 for a while for on-site deployments!

As a reminder, the release steps are:
   1. 8.0 offline stabilization -> bugfixes  <= WE ARE HERE
   2. 8.0 deployed on Odoo.com (migration) -> bugfixes
   3. 8.0 deployed on Odoo Online for new customers -> bugfixes
   4. 8.0 deployed on Odoo Online for all customers (migration) ->
bugfixes
   5. 8.0 final release

We're very close to step 2. Steps 2-4 usually take a month or so for the
average saas-X branch, but we know that this one is harder than the
average.

That's where we stand right now.

If you want to make it happen sooner, please deploy and test the 8.0RC
branch, review pull requests/fixes contributed by others, write patches
for issues submitted by others, etc.

You're also welcome to start using the 8.0 RC branch for new customer
projects:
it is stable API-wise and the installation packages will be there soon as
well.
By the time you get to pre-production tests the final version will likely
be out.

Thanks,

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