a new release or not???

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Andreas,

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 19:11 +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:
> Wtf are you doing here?

:) Discussing. Please feel free to join.

> I'm the openjdk package maintainer for a linux distribution and see
> some security related patches floating around in the thread topic and
> then a release tag and then it's going to become a never announced
> internal whatever???

Just to be clear the release with all known security issues resolved was
IcedTea6 1.5.1, officially released on August 7:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2009-August/006764.html

The discussion/confusion is around the fact that there are two release
branches active. IcedTea6-1.5 and IcedTea6-1.6. Lillian is handling the
1.5 branch and Andrew is handling the 1.6 branch (there is also of
course the trunk IcedTea6 where all new development takes place).

Nothing is "internal" whatever, everything is public at
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/ (including all tags for each branch)
Even the discussion about what to release as what is public (on this
list). Please do feel free to join the discussion about what you like to
be considered for each (future) release.

Cheers,

Mark