IcedTea release process

[DJ Lucas]

Gary Benson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Given the recent friction about the current IcedTea release process
> (such as it is) I'd like to start a discussion about what to do for
> the future.  We don't have to resolve anything now, but we can at
> least we start to figure out what the issues are in time to discuss
> it "properly" with beer at FOSDEM.
>
> So, firstly, are formal releases beneficial?  Who uses them?
Absolutely.  It gives end users the warm fuzzy.  It's good, it's stable, we know it works...

> - Lillian and Matthias, do you exclusively use the release tarballs,
>    or do you sometimes (or most times) use ones you cut yourself.
>    Would it be easier for you guys to just cut your own tarballs
>    and call them icedtea6-c29bbfa41f2b.tar.gz or whatever?
>
>  - Are there other distro maintainers out there?  What about you?
>
>   
Yes, at least one watching and waiting.  :-)  I do plan to replace JDK6 
with IcedTea6 in BLFS when I get the time to test it thoroughly.  With 
our current policy, that would be difficult to do without 'stable' 
releases, but not impossible.  I'm sure various other source-based 
distros are keeping an eye out as well and would likely have similar 
concerns.

-- DJ Lucas

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