Proposed IcedTea6-1.5 Release

[Andrew Haley]

Lillian Angel wrote:
> Lillian Angel wrote:
>> Lillian Angel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to have a release in the new future, which includes the
>>> new b16 update and several important improvements to the plugin.
>>>
>>> Any objections or suggestions?
>>
>> There is still quite a bit of work to be done for the upcoming 1.5
>> release, but I have cloned the main repo:
>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.5/
>>
>> It has not been tagged yet, but continue to commit to the main repo
>> and I will update the 1.5 one when we are ready to go. 
> 
> I have removed this release branch from the server. Too much effort was
> being duplicated. Since this is a major release, all release work will
> be based on the main repo using the rc style of tagging. In the case of
> having a minor release, a separate branch will be created.
> 
> There is no "freeze" policy. Once everyone agrees that a release
> candidate is golden, it will be the final release.
> 
> Does this work for everyone? I am open to suggestions.

I think we should do this in the same way that is used for many other
free software projects:

1.  Pick a branch point on the trunk.  Now seems like a good time.
Make a branch from that branch point.

2.  Test that release branch.  Make corrections where needed.

3.  Make the release from the release branch.

There's no advantage to releasing directly from the trunk.

If it just so happens that there is no difference between the release
branch and the trunk at the time of release, that's fine.

Andrew.