Proposed IcedTea 6 release

[Matthias Klose]

On 10.08.2009 18:44, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:

>> It would also be good to coordinate with Sun on this in order to time
>> IcedTea6 releases against upstream OpenJDK6 build drops. There is a
>> known cycle for OpenJDK7
>> (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/calendar/) but none, as far as
>> I know, for OpenJDK6.
>
> Yes, OpenJDK 6 builds have always been on an as-needed basis and not a
> fixed schedule, but builds are always needed for security releases. I
> agree it would be reasonable for OpenJDK 6 and IcedTea 6 to coordinate
> more.

Now that we have a 1.5.1 release, can we have such a build/code drop this week 
for the 1.6 release? It would be nice to get rid of all the extra patches which 
did accumulate in the icedtea repository.

   Matthias