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Trevor Clowry
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Thursday 09 March 2006 8:22:34 am
Hi there,
We are currently budgeting ezpublish development jobs for the year and need to prepare a annual maintenance fee for each job. This fee would consist of number of items but I am looking into how many times the content management system will be required to be updated during the year.
I know that this is a hard question to answer but does anyone know how many different releases are released on average per year.Is there a timeline of previous releases so far. I can see that 3.8 should be released in May. How many more releases would be expected this year?
Any feedback would be appreciated.
thanks,
Trevor
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kracker (the)
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Thursday 09 March 2006 5:31:37 pm
<i>Great question! Excellent point!</i> Even as eZ updates the roadmap and schedule during the course of each quarter as changes in the schedule are made ... A more granulated, detailed and longer term roadmap with guideline milestones + dates would be a very good for customers, users and developers.
//kracker
<b>Sage Francis Ft. Eyedea & Slug - Embarassed</b>
<i>Reference:
http://ez.no/community/developer/roadmap</i>
Member since: 2001.07.13 || http://ezpedia.se7enx.com/
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Trevor Clowry
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Friday 10 March 2006 2:43:55 am
I totally agree kracker.
Is there anywhere that I can see previous release dates of old versions?
I have looked at the ezpublish roadmap and found it useful to a certain degree, but it does not provide the detail that I feel would be necessary to answer the questions I had.
I also know that adding expected release dates to ezpublish releases may give false expectations to developers, however if it was clearly indicated that it is only an estimation and the estimations were reviewed regularly. I dont think there would be a problem. Does anyone else have any ideas about this? Trevor
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Paul Forsyth
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Friday 10 March 2006 7:55:06 am
Release dates are also announced on the mailing list. For instance, the latest point releases are about to come out: http://lists.ez.no/pipermail/sdk-public/2006-March/002000.html paul
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Trevor Clowry
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Monday 13 March 2006 2:52:45 am
Thanks Paul,
I guess i am still not sure how many releases to expect in a year and i understand it is a hard question to answer. Does anyone know of any records of previous release dates for the ezpublish releases?
If anyone knows if this information doesn't exist i'd be happy just to know.
Thanks again,
trev
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Paul Forsyth
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Monday 13 March 2006 4:01:07 am
Normal behaviour is one or two major releases a year with several maintence releases in between. Of late its been one'ish... There has been no word on other 3.X releases but i would be surprised if 3.9 doesnt appear. However, with eZ 4 on the horizon sometime next year its not clear if this pattern will change. And you have to realise that eZ 4 will not be backwards compatible but there will be lots of upgrade solutions to counter this. I would budget for 3.8 and wait another year before going to 4. paul
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Dmitry Lakhtyuk
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Monday 13 March 2006 6:41:17 am
Some previous release dates can be found here http://ez.no/download/ez_publish
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Bruce Morrison
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Monday 13 March 2006 5:39:59 pm
Hi Trevor
You can check the dates of when the release branches were added to SVN here.
http://pubsvn.ez.no/websvn/listing.php?repname=nextgen&path=%2Frelease%2F&rev=0&sc=1 This will at least give you a historical picture of the frequency of releases. On a practicable point you could allow for 4,6,8 updates and let the client know that additional ones would cost $X per update.
Cheers
Bruce
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