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Depending on the changes required and the impact this could be either straightforward or complex so would need to be assessed on a case by case basis.

Making Use of the Trunk

Taher suggested that we do not have big commits so that we keep the changes small and traceable. He also recommended that we do not have big commit bursts where lots of commits go in too quickly. Small steps with an agreed plan of work is more controllable.

Taher highlighted that the OFBiz project used the trunk in a different way to other open source projects.

In other projects the trunk is normally the place where innovation happens and so this means that it is generally unstable. However in OFBiz the trunk has been kept stable which means that we are not actively using it to innovate or try out new functionality that could improve OFBiz. Instead branches have been used but they can quickly become dead branches that are too hard to merge back in.

Jacques suggested that re-factoring work be done using the trunk and back ported to an unreleased version (e.g 15.12). The project has always recommended the stable releases for production users.

After a lot of discussion the general feedback was that we begin using the trunk for the framework re-factor and communicate to the community that it may become unstable because of this.