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• The existing releases as we have now
• an OFBiz Framework + Data Model release for developers to build their own applications and UI;
• The creation of a limited scope component with a nice flow and UI for Business Users (this could just be a hot deploy component that uses OFBiz existing functionality); It could be included as part of OFBiz by default;

After a brief disucussion this idea was very well supported. There was query as to whether the Framework + Data Model would (or could ) be a separate official release or whether it could be packaged as part of our existing release that could be easily separated.

A key point from the discussion was that some work needed to start on the framework however small as it had been the subject of so many discussions that people were getting frustrated that no visible progress had been made. 

Discussion Topic: Migrating Minilang to Groovy

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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. Pierre wanted to see if ze could manage our releases more efficiently meaning they could be available faster. This could help contibutors and committers provide patches etc for specific releases.

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