Proposed IcedTea 6 release

Lillian Angel langel at redhat.com
Wed Aug 12 08:23:00 PDT 2009


Andrew Haley wrote:
> Lillian Angel wrote:
>
>   
>> Due to the most recent drop of security patches, the progress on the
>> plugin/netx and system-tap integration, I am wondering if this is a good
>> time to have a release.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>     
>
> I've been talking with Ed Nevill and others, and it looks like the ARM
> bytecode interpreter patch isn't going to be ready in time for this
> release.  So, we might as well cut the release branch now: there wasn't
> anything else we were waiting for, IIRC.
>
> This time I'd like to do the release myself, if no-one has any objections.
> This is mostly for my own education, but also because we should spread
> the load between maintainers.
>
> So, I think this is a good time to cut the branch.  Is that OK with
> everyone?


Sounds excellent.

Lillian



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