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Pierre raised a topic regarding the release strategy and the visibility it would give to the community. Over the last few years since we changed the release naming , we know that we will release one new branch per year (e.g 09.04, 10.04,11.04, etc) and also update releases for all our active branches. This means that we could plan our releases. We could put together a high level plan with an estimated month for each proposed release and then have the visibility about what could be included or not.

This could also help contributors and committers to provide patches etc for specific releases.

Jacopo mentioned that the project tends to have 3 active releases ongoing. The life of each releases is 3-4 years.The project doesnt have to create new branch releases yearly but the discussion highlighted that regular releases shows that the project and community is active. Also the ASF use project releases as a measure of the healthiness of projects.

We currently have a details about tentative releases that are published on the OFBiz download page https://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html but it isnt getting actively updated when a proposed release date has been missed;

Discussion Topic: Automated Tests

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