Odoo Addons (MOVED TO GITHUB)

  1. Bug #1160365
  2. Comment #227

Comment 227 for bug 1160365

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Alexandre Fayolle - camptocamp (alexandre-fayolle-c2c) wrote :

Hi Fabien,

re #223, what the community has collectively expressed here is that we feel that the change *you* propose may break our community addons. Hence the heated debate here and on twitter (and maybe elsewhere too...).

I'll repeat again: Yes it is possible to work with the fix you propose. But it is fundamentally WRONG, because changing the semantic of a database field is like changing the ABI of a library. It is EVIL. Can you seriously imagine Linus Torvalds allowing a semantic change in an API of the linux kernel used by device drivers ? I can't.

Finally, I'm sorry to tell you you do not manage OpenERP the way Linus Torvalds manages Linux. AFAIK no one outside OpenERP SA has commit rights on the main branch, and MP coming from outside OpenERP SA are mostly ignored [1]. There is no public mailing list on which discussions about the evolution and design of things such as res.partner happen (supposedly this should have been openerp-expert-framework, but I don't remember seeing anything close to this last year). There is not even a public roadmap of the changes coming in trunk on which to base these discussions.

[1] to be fair, this has slightly changed since the introduction of the OCB branches.

Regards,