Heads up: IcedTea6 1.4 is on the way

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/1/28 Lillian Angel <langel at redhat.com>:
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lillian,
>>
>> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 08:51 -0500, Lillian Angel wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 16:02 -0500, Lillian Angel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We plan on having a release sometime next week.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I updated the NEWS file with some stuff done since 1.3.1. Wow, we
>>>>> did a lot! I saw you added a 1.4 tag, but didn't yet update the
>>>>> release date in the NEWS file. Will you be retagging and updating
>>>>> the date? Any estimate on the release date? I saw Matthias uncovered
>>>>> some test failures compared with 1.3.1/old hotspot. Are any of those
>>>>> release stoppers?
>>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think we should go about creating new tarballs. Unfortunately,
>>> there is always going to be something that misses the deadline. Sorry! The
>>> release should be going out later today.
>>>
>>
>> Aha, I must have missed the announcement of the test tar balls and when
>> they turned into the final release tar balls. Sorry. Where did you
>> publish the test releases?
>>
>
> I made the announcement that asked everyone to push their patches by
> Thursday last week. Mattias said that he would need the weekend to do
> testing, so I didn't end up creating the final tarballs until Monday to
> include Gary's fixes as well. I thought it was clear the process I was
> taking, and that we would need at least a week to do all the testing before
> it gets pushed out. I am sorry if I was unclear.
>

I saw the mails last week, but then didn't see an announcement this
week or any tarball on http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/

>> It would be nice to at least update the NEWS file with the actual
>> release date (and hopefully all the new goodies that went in).

This would seem to be an imperative part of announcing the release.

>>
>> Also including at least the list of regressions that Matthias noticed
>> would be nice (not necessarily in the NEWS file, but in the final
>> announcement if you sent it out).
>
> I am not sure where to draw the line. It has been difficult to coordinate
> all the testing, and I am afraid we are running short of time and resources.
> Everything else has been put on the backburner to get this tested and out.
> What are everyone else's thoughts?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Lillian
>
>
>
>



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