Questions about Alfresco versions

[piski]

Hi all,

Please, someone could answer a few questions to make the subject clearest ?

1) Alfresco Versions
What's the difference between versions like 3.3 HF1, SP1, SP2 … 3.3g (seen on JIRA) ?
Are these subversions (fixes/patches) only available for Enterprise version ?

2) Patches / fixes
- Fixes/patches, such as SPx, are made (and applied ?) by Alfresco Engineers (SP packages) if we have Enterprise Version with support contract ?
- Fixes, in Community Version, must be applied by ourselves by downloading the latest revision (or a specific revision ?) from SVN HEAD, recompile the .WAR files from Eclipse and replace them ?
- Latest revision downloadable from SVN HEAD is the latest "stable" subversion of Alfresco Community product ? Could you explain quickly the diffrence between SVN HEAD and nightly builds ?

- How do we know which build (specially 3.3g Community Version 2860 build) match with which SVN revision ?
BY READING http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Community_Edition_3.3g_Release_Notes !!!
-> The SVN revision number for Alfresco Community Edition 3.3 G is 20557 … Sorry, sometimes I write faster than I read !!!

3) Development Environment
According to http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_on_Eclipse and http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_SVN_Development_Environment, we have to set a development environment to debug/improve ourselves the source code or simply to rebuild .WAR files to get the latest fixes/patches for our version, is this correct ?

Thank you for your answers !

[piski]

Hi again,

I want to check the revision which contains the fix for the bug :

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-3991‍

In JIRA, are "Act Numbers" the same thing as "Revision number" ?

If yes, Unfortunately, the revision isn't there (or I can't read it properly !). It seems SVN has "spaces" between some revision numbers ?!?
[img]http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4582/svncheckoutmissingrevis.jpg[/img]

PS: When I searched for "ALF-3991" in revision comments, for all the revisions, I found nothing.

Who's could enlighten me please ?

[mrogers]

No "Act Numbers" are not the same as "Revision number" ?    ACT numbers are references to one of the Enterprise support systems.

This particular issue was fixed and validated in Enterprise 3.3 SP2.
Merged to HEAD Aug 31 2010.

[piski]

Thanks for your reply !

I don't understand something (my previous post) :
SP are provided only for Enterprise version ?
"Merged to HEAD" means directly fixed in the source code, in a revision we cannot see directly by browsing SVN HEAD ?
If I understand, the Community make fixes/improvements and "you" decide to deliver a Community release version between 2 HEAD revisions ?

So, for my mind what's the difference between HEAD revisions and "nightly builds" ?
Is this the nightly compiled version of daily HEAD revisions ?

Thank you much for your help !

[mrogers]

Yes.   The nighlty build is exactly that.   A nightly build of HEAD.  (Well actually every so often it stuffs up but you get the idea. :roll: )

You can see HEAD via SVN.

I don't understand your sentence with "you" in it. :?

[piski]

Thank you !

I mean by "you", not only you but all Alfresco engineers, your Team I think !

Could you reply to me for patches like SP, are they available only for Enterprise Version ?

How to fix ourselves, from an official release version, a bug ? We have to dl SVN HEAD revision (latest or which we want) and recompile Alfresco ?

[mrogers]

Yes Service Packs and Hot Fix Patches are part of Alfresco's paid for services.

There's no specific answer for how to apply an individual fix to the community version.  It depends upon the particular issue as to what needs to change.

[piski]

Thank you, it's clearest for me now !