Hi Jeroen and Will,
I’ve been working with trunk for a couple of month now, and it looks pretty stable now with a good set of new features [1], minor enhancements and fixes [2]. So revision 7221 is a good one to work with, I think. The main issue you will have if you use trunk for your project is that major changes could occur and disturb the changes you made (this seems to also happens in branches too) and all functionalities are not tested at every revisions so it may be broken. So before using a revision for you project, you should do some testing first !
For GeoSource Sandbox, maven is used to retrieve a specific revision of GeoNetwork and apply patches and configuration. So you could fix a revision number for the project, and when relevant patches are applied to next revisions, you could update the revision number or only apply the patch. It’s a bit tricky when the number of patches increase, it depends on the kind of changes you plan to make.
2011/1/27 Jeroen Ticheler <jeroen.ticheler@anonymised.com>
Hi Will,
GeoNetwork 2.7 is a version that is unstable and should not be used for operational projects. Many things are still subject to change and new functionality is added and can be removed during the development phase.
The planning we normally have is to make one stable major release per year.
Maybe we should update the release strategy one day [3] “Stable releases are created on a time schedule: every six months”
About the release, I’m still not convince by tagging uneven series with the “unstable” flag. Adding new features to trunk does not automatically make them unstable and I’ve seen also quite a number of “unstable” features added to even series. For example, today trunk is probably as stable as 2.6.x branch. From my point of view, it could be better to make releases when trunk has been tested and have a good number of new features (and before inserting intrusive proposals which may results in a longer period of instability) instead of adding stuff to branches which may have not been tested so much.
Anyway, do not hesitate to report issues you find on trunk.
Cheers
Francois
[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/proposals#a2.7.0release
[2] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/query?status=closed&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&milestone=v2.7.0
[3] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/release_strategy
The version 2.8, which will be that next major release and is based on a stabilized trunk, should be coming around August 2011.
I hope this helps, even if it might not exactly be the answer you hoped for.
Kind regards,
Jeroen
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On 26 jan 2011, at 18:20, Angley, William [USA] wrote:
Hi GeoNetwork team,
I’m currently looking to upgrade an existing GeoNetwork installation to GeoNetwork 2.7 as part of a consulting project, but my client isn’t comfortable with using software built from a Subversion repository.
I’ve checked the project roadmap and it doesn’t list a release date for GeoNetwork 2.7. Might a date have been scheduled for the release, but not yet recorded on Trac?
Thanks,
– Will
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