preparing a icedtea-1.3 release?

[Lillian Angel]

Lillian Angel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Matthias Klose wrote:
>> [dropping the jdk6-dev list, adding distro-pkg-dev]
>>
>> Lillian Angel schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 17:48 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>>>> The last icedtea release 1.2 (bases on b09) was four months ago. I
>>>>> would like to
>>>>> prepare a 1.3 release based ob b12. are there currently outstanding
>>>>> issues?
>>>> Good idea. There have been lots of improvements since the last official
>>>> 1.2 release. Including various security and crasher issues, that we
>>>> really should make sure are picked up by the various distros.
>>>>
>>>>>  - general?
>>>> I would like to get the better version reporting in that you and andrew
>>>> suggested. Andrew already has something in icedtea[7].
>>>>
>>>>>  - cacao?
>>>>>  - icedtea plugin?
>>>>>  - zero/shark?
>>>> Lets make sure that cacao and zero/shark are synced and the default
>>>> configure options set. Deepak, do you feel the 
>>>> liveconnect/icedteaplugin
>>>> support is ready for being enabled by default?
>>>>
>>>>> If possible I aim for a release candidate for the next weekend and
>>>>> for a final
>>>>> release in about two weeks.
>>>> I'll work on some release notes to summarize all the new stuff.
>>> I would like to wait until we have the PulseAudio work integrated and,
>>> if possible, Deepak's LiveConnect work.
>>
>> LiveConnect is disabled by default, so that should be fine (although a 
>> working
>> LiveConnect would be very welcome).
>>
>> How invasive are the PulseAudio changes, how well is it tested, can it 
>> be turned
>> off like the icedtea plugin? The trunk is currently relatively stable.
> 
> It will not be enabled by default, just because we are not sure how well 
> it will work with other distros. Though, it will be enabled in Fedora, 
> so if we are going to have a full 1.3 release, it will need to go 
> through the TCK testing before it gets pushed into Fedora. So, 
> ultimately I would like to see both of these new features in F-10 (which 
> is still quite a ways off). Also, they would be excellent milestones to 
> reach for the next release.
> 
> Though, in the future, I hope it does not take another 4 months to make 
> an official release.

After some discussion on IRC, we decided to aim for a release during 
the week of October 14 to accommodate the Ubuntu release, PulseAudio 
and LiveConnect.


Cheers,
Lillian