Is Alfresco a real Open Source?

[edless]

Certified Alfresco Partners only offer Level 1 Support, Consulting, Integration or Training on either the Alfresco Enterprise.

Open source was born to give people the possibility to share knowledge and expertise.

Why Alfresco is giving just to big company the possibility to be supported  on the product? Why I can't pay a Alfresco Partner just to support me on a community version, without asking any guaranty?

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[mikeh]

That's correct - we've put a lot of effort recently into merging all Enterprise V3.0 (SP1) code into HEAD - remember, that's *after* E3.0 has had extensive QA testing.

There are still HEAD-only features, for example: a vastly improved Document Previewer as well as a rewritten Calendar in Share, the new Web Studio, etc. but our QA team have been busy putting these through their paces.

Naturally, bugs will remain and we'd encourage everyone to raise them in JIRA with reproducible cases where possible.

We have been listening to the concerns raised in this forum and changes are being implemented as a result thereof.

Many thanks for your patience and continued support.
Mike

[heislord5]

That's great.  A stable labs sounds great.

OK…I'm editing because I misread the prior post.  This is really cool!  A labs with all the stabilizations from SP1 and the cutting edge features of labs (that obviously would add some instability at the cost of the newest features….this is a good thing.

Also, this does not impact your support model because obviously if labs has new features, it would still be less stable in that feature set.  In other words, the value of having a completely stable and mature code base such as Enterprise is still there, but this gives us in the community a leg to stand on in labs version.

This makes me smile.

[vsuarez]

Great! That's really great. An important step and a clear movement to support the community. Congratulations.

[heislord5]

I can't use the download.  Says access is denied.

[mabayona]

It happens only with crome and firefox. If you try to download with IE it works.

[heislord5]

no I get the same problem from IE.  Says I don't have permission.  "The website declined to show this page"

  The website declined to show this webpage
HTTP 403 
   Most likely causes:
This website requires you to log in.

   What you can try:
     Go back to the previous page.

     More information

This error (HTTP 403 Forbidden) means that Internet Explorer was able to connect to the website, but it does not have permission to view the webpage.

For more information about HTTP errors, see Help.


I tried logging in to wiki first…that didn't help.

[mrogers]

I don't think Labs 3 Stable is quite ready yet.    Although as you have seen there is a candidate build and the documentation for it has been appearing over the last week.

In the meantime, if download does not work for you, last night's build should be pretty close, unless there are last minute problems.

I'm sure you will see an announcement soon.

[fselendic]

Yep, download doesn't work yet.
And last nightly builds available are from 02.01.

So, what's the release plan now?
HEAD will be stable and unstable at the same time? 
I suppose 3.0d is still being worked on. So, what is this "stable" release, a stabilized mid-release between 3c and 3d, containing all the fixes from (some) Enterprise patch level, but also parts of not yet ready 3d code? Can we expect the same thing to happen from now on, release marked as "stable", coming after Enterprise version, at least twice a year, something like "hardened" labs version? That would actually be great!

[jerico_dev]

Hi Mike,

That's correct - we've put a lot of effort recently into merging all Enterprise V3.0 (SP1) code into HEAD - remember, that's *after* E3.0 has had extensive QA testing.

It's really good news that you are merging bug fixes into HEAD. I'm glad this is happening as it makes many of the newer parts of the HEAD version much more usable and keeps Alfresco a very interesting project! 🙂

So far this is nothing too new however. Merging fixes to HEAD was always your policy (while you certainly have tried to merge many of them lately).

Usually a "stable" version is called stable because it stems from a separate code branch that only receives bug fixes and security fixes. Is this your definition of "stable" as well? I know that EE is kept stable that way. So I guess you agree.

My question therefore is: Do you call the new Labs 3 version stable because it stems from it's own stable code branch? Can I find the stable branch in the community subversion repository? Or did you just choose a specific development snapshot that received more bug fixes than others and call it "stable"?

I am sorry that I seem to be in the role of the bad guy on this forum which is somehow a new experience for me. I just want to keep things clear and honest so that everybody knows what exactly hides behind the labels.

This doesn't mean that I am not happy with your efforts to keep the community version up to date with bug fixes!

Jerico

[jerico_dev]

something like "hardened" labs version? That would actually be great!

I didn't see fselendic's post before I posted mine. He asks essentially the same question as I. Sorry for the redundancy.