Release Schedule

[Matthias Klose]

On 09.06.2010 11:50, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> I have a number of new IcedTea releases in planning:
>
> * IcedTea6 1.6 branch:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.6/shortlog/
>
> There will be a 1.6.3 release as the branch has a lot of patches not
> yet released including security updates.  It is ready for testing now.
>   I have a few more patches to look into, but it's otherwise ready.
> doko reported an issue with Zero a while back, but I've not heard
> anything since.

I didn't look at these anymore.  For my liking, the 1.6 branch has too many 
build system patches backported, which apparently did break some configurations. 
  I'd like to avoid these kind of backports for more recent branches.

> * IcedTea6 1.7 branch:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7/shortlog/
>
> There will be a 1.7.4 release to update the plugin with recent bug
> fixes in 1.8 and beyond.  This will be a plugin-only release.  Most of
> the patches have been backported (up to 1.8) and so this is also
> eligible for testing now.
>
> * IcedTea7: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea/shortlog
>
> There will be based on b89 (Milestone 7).  I see from
> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/milestones/ that we've
> apparently just reached Milestone 8, but I've seen nothing from Oracle
> on either milestone 6, 7 or 8 and I don't believe 8 is feature
> complete; I've seen no commits relating to closures for one thing.  As
> you may have seen from the IcedTea7 commits, I've been backporting
> over six months worth of work on IcedTea6 to IcedTea7 over the last
> few weeks.  There's still some to go, so I'll let the list know when
> it's worth testing.   But it should be soon.

Build patches are likely needed for some of the more obscure Debian builds. if 
"soon" is too soon, then I'd like to make these build changes on a 1.7 branch as 
well. A release date after the IcedTea6 releases would be appreciated.

> A couple of changes I plan for this release are updating the CACAO
> build to use the development branch: see
> http://server.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139
> and dropping VisualVM, which I believe is broken anyway.  VisualVM
> will be migrated to its own repository.
>
> I'd like to make the same VisualVM change with IcedTea6 HEAD in due
> course.

agreed. Did we hear back from VisualVM upstream to provide a visualvm project on 
IcedTea.classpath.org?

Is there some comittment from the CACAO project to keep the OpenJDK build working?

> As to IcedTea6 HEAD generally, I don't think we're ready for
> another release yet so I doubt we'll have a release based on b19.  The
> only major change there was an upgrade to hs16, which we provided as
> an option in 1.8 anyway.  I'd rather we wait for b20 and then begin
> preparing a release, stabilising on hs17, which will bring us in line
> with the proprietary JDK6.

skipping b20 sounds fine. I personally do not want to work on b19 anymore.

> For 1.8, I will backport any plugin fixes that are post-1.8 as I do
> them for 1.7, but I'll leave releases up to the release manager, doko.

please feel free to apply these to the 1.8 branch. Trying for a 1.8.1 release 
around the same time as for the 1.7.4 release.

   Matthias