IcedTea6 releases

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/2/25 Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
> On 02/24/09 03:41 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
>
> Mark Wielaard schrieb:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> One of the things we discussed at Fosdem was how to coordinate releases.
> We agreed that in principle everybody should be able to "call a
> release", at least for IcedTea6. In principle that tree should always be
> in releasable state. That said, it is still a good idea to have a
> stabilization period, where no new features are added, and only
> (regression) fixes are done. But this also shouldn't block all other
> work.
>
>
> If I did understand Joe correctly at Fosdem, there are no new code drops
> planned
> for OpenJDK6, however he mentioned creating the tags instead. How should we
> go
> forward with this scenario? Should a tarball be hosted on the icedtea
> website as
> well?
>
>
> We will continue to have changes in the upstream OpenJDK 6 repository;
> periodically these will be tagged with a build number as done in JDK 7.
> (Several of the recent changes should remove the need for a few of the
> IcedTea patches.)
>
> The current in-progress build is b16.  The b15 tag isn't present at the
> moment, but b15 was just used to mark the transition to Mercurial without
> any other code changes.
>
> If there is interest in having source snapshots in addition to the Mercurial
> forest, we can could consider continuing to provide that in the future.
>
> -Joe
>
>
>
>

I believe source snapshots would make things easier, and they are
provided for 7.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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