Alfresco 3.1 Release

[samuel_penn]

Does anyone know when Alfresco 3.1 Enterprise will be released?

Also, when is the next version of Labs (3.1?) due to be released?

Thanks,
Sam.

[mikeh]

3.1E should be imminent - just going through the final release stages.

Most of the code is now merged to HEAD, but we're also adding the new Forms Service (as well as other new pieces) to Labs, so that will be released around the middle of April.

Thanks,
Mike

[samuel_penn]

Admittedly, I took 'imminent' to mean later that day, so was waiting to say that I'd downloaded it before replying.

I assume things are taking longer than expected. Any word on when it may be available?

Thanks,
Sam.

[deas0815]

Hallo everybody,

I'm wondering what status/version the initial 3.1 labs version well have.

Will it be 3.1Stable or will 3.1 iterate versions like 3.0 did, starting with 3.1a ?

Maybe I missed something, but I was a little confused with 3.0 versioning. I was always wondering
whether 3.0{a,b,c,d} was supposed to be stable, beta or alpha.

best  regards
Andreas

[chicks]

Would it be possible to release Labs 3.1 with just the fixes (primarily the dot in user name major showstopper) that were included in 3.1 enterprise?  I'd hate to install a version similar to 2.9, which had features that precluded it from being upgraded to 3.0.  Don't want to repeat that experience…

[mrogers]

Pretty much all of the 3.1 code and fixes are already on Head.

I'm not aware that anyone has agreed what the official labels for the Labs releases will be but the plan is that there will soon be another preview release of labs (which may have the confusing title of Labs 3 E  :? .)   Then there will be a more complete version (Labs 3 F ?)  which should be the next stable release.

[fselendic]

Aghhhhhh 

OK, guys, now that you are slowly moving towards free core/fee extensions model, can we expect that you'll put some sense in naming scheme for ALL of your products?

Why, in God's name, can't next stable Labs version have a name "Alfresco Community(Network, Labs, whatever) 3.2"? And then be followed in one or two months by "Alfresco Enterprise 3.2", that has a few more bug fixes and addons that you think are fair to be included in Enterprise version (and paid for)?

You can then have nightly builds, you can mark some of those Alpha, Beta, RC, so that we all know what's exactly going on, instead of this mess, 3.0, 3.0c, 3.0stable, 3.0d, e, f, 3.0 enterprise, 3.1 enterprise, 3.2 enterprise, nobody (and I think not even you) can say what maps to what.

And, when you fully finish transition to free core/fee extensions, it would be great to move to one core codebase. You'll still have warranty, indemnification, support priority, certified partners and extensions on, paid for, Enterprise side, and Labs/community users will know what they are getting (as opposed to what they could be getting if they cash out).

Oh, yeah, and now that there actually are some things in Enterprise that aren't in Labs, a small, simple list with differences would be great.

[chicks]

Pretty much all of the 3.1 code and fixes are already on Head.

Great, what the heck is "Head"? 

Why not just update the current download version of Labs to 3.1 to keep it in sync with Enterprise?  There's a major, show-stopping bug in Share 3.0 "final" having to do with dotted usernames (doesn't everyone use dotted usernames?) that was for some reason quickly rolled into the current Enterprise download, but not into the Labs download.  Isn't Labs supposed to be kept a step or two ahead of Enterprise?

[samuel_penn]

That 'dots in user names' bug was in 2.2 for WCM, and fixed in SP1 or 2. We've 'only' had one customer hit by it, so don't aren't that common, but they shouldn't have been unexpected.

Every version of Community/Labs after 2.1 has had a show stopper bug in WCM of one form or another. I'm hoping that WCM actually works in the next stable Labs.

Head is the latest version in subversion source code control - it should also make its way into the nightly builds. As such, it can be unstable and I wouldn't use it for production, so it's probably not useful.

Sam.

[mikeh]

Great, what the heck is "Head"?

HEAD is the commonly-used term for "latest source code" - i.e. what you get when you do an "svn checkout" and build it locally, which is how a lot of people like to work.

Why not just update the current download version of Labs to 3.1 to keep it in sync with Enterprise?  There's a major, show-stopping bug in Share 3.0 "final" having to do with dotted usernames (doesn't everyone use dotted usernames?) that was for some reason quickly rolled into the current Enterprise download, but not into the Labs download.  Isn't Labs supposed to be kept a step or two ahead of Enterprise?

There's quite a lot of admin overhead around updating the "official" download version. People expect release notes, bug fix reports, etc. etc.

Current download versions are available from here: http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/  The server is updated when the full set of unit tests all pass, hence it's not really "nightly" due to transient problems.

Mike