Heads up: IcedTea6 1.4 is on the way

[Andrew Haley]

David Herron wrote:
> Matthias Klose wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Or you could take a page from other kinds of QA organizations ...
> 
> The FCS or GA tarball is the one that's undergone testing but prior to
> that tarball could be one or more beta or RC tarballs depending on your
> labeling preference.

That doesn't sound any different.  Obviously the tarballs must have
RC status until one of them passes the release criteria, at which
point it becomes the release.

What's the difference?

Andrew.