Comment 83 for bug 1160365

And in any case, such semantic and conceptual changes should have been debated explicitly at least 1 year before a version, certainly not 100 days after the "LTS" release. Now trying to hide the conceptual errors with a model that is conceptually bad anyway.

So if OpenERP SA wants to debate about doing that in version 9 or 10, no problem, start debating it, no problem. At least people will freely be able to decide in advance if they stay on the same boat or not. But as for version 7, we have to fix it in the more consistent and less risky way.

We partners already sold OPW contracts to our customers telling them "you know, with that it will be easier to migrate to that great version 7.0". Had we known these plans to kill the data model (and now the view layer?), we would probably not have sold that dream. But now we are owing a solution to our customers. I mean a real solution, a version that they expected to be better than the past ones, not something that will just hide them the problems on the surface.

And now there is a strong consensus about how to do that, only OpenERP SA is refusing to see what is now obvious to everybody. That is very sad.