Proposed IcedTea 6 release

[Mark Wielaard]

On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 08:56 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> IMO we spend far too much time discussing these issues.  We need to make
> this standard procedure: whenever there are fixes for significant bugs we
> apply them to the current release branch and make a minor release.
> Whenever there are significant new features we make a major release.
> A lot of the discussion in this list is, IMO, a result of confusing
> these unrelated issues.
>
> The ARM port is all ready to go in apart from one minor problem.  This can
> be fixed in the next few days, I hope, and the testing can begin.

Right. I think the confusion comes from where people think we are in the
release cycle. It would be good if we had more timed releases, say every
6 weeks on a Monday (or something similarly random, but consistent).
Then it is clear that when the release manager says that a release is
coming, you know when you must have had your code in, testing done and
that a branch is imminent.

Otherwise we get situations where there seems to be lots of discussions
because some people believe we are ready and are in testing mode before
a final release already and others think we are at the start of a
release cycle and new stuff can still be added and additional testing
needs to be done afterwards.

Cheers,

Mark