preparing a icedtea-1.3 release?

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 16:54 Mon 29 Sep     , Lillian Angel wrote:
>
>
> 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

Sounds good to me.  Thanks for taking this on.
I'll try and do a 1.8 for IcedTea7 soon after that.
-- 
Andrew :)

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