Heads up: IcedTea6 1.4 is on the way

[Matthias Klose]

Andrew Haley schrieb:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> 2009/1/28 Lillian Angel <langel at redhat.com>:
>>> Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 
>>>> 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).
> 
> No, this is quite impossible.  A release tarball is made and the release
> is tested.  Once that's done, the tarball is golden.  You do not go fiddling
> with files inside the tarball.

Maybe we should be more clear about what was tested, or was intended to be tested.

 - which configurations were tested? I know I did test hotspot, cacao and
   zero builds, but did not invest the same amount of time in each of
   these tests. Did run the jtreg testsuite. Did do the tests based on
   packages.

 - afaiu a binary build of
   http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/java-1.6.0-openjdk/
   was tested (against the TCK?), which differs from the release tarball
   anyway.

There seems to be more than one who was not aware about the release tarballs,
and maybe why these were done at this time.

>>> 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?

We started a bit uncoordinated, but didn't change this much during this release.
 But we already did agree to address this at the DevJam.

  Matthias