preparing an IcedTea6-1.8 release

[Matthias Klose]

On 09.03.2010 18:44, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 9 March 2010 17:39, Matthias Klose<doko at ubuntu.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to prepare an IcedTea6-1.8 release, which I would like to
>> include into the coming Debian and Ubuntu releases. The build failures
>> introduced with the 6b18 import are now fixed, not seeing any more build
>> failures. Would be reasonable to do this before switching to 6b19, and
>> preparing a prerelease for mid/end of next week, and the final release for
>> the end of March?
>>
>>   Matthias
>>
>>
>
> We definitely need a release prior to importing b19, but that's not
> imminent just yet (Zero needs upstreaming for one thing).  It would
> also be good to get Nimbus out in a release, so the plan sounds good
> to me.

I would like to create the branch on Thu, Mar 18 22:00 UTC.  the plugin/netx 
reorganization looks finished.  Are there any other changes which should go into 
the release?

I'm planning to prepare the release on Mar 25/26, and releasing after the weekend.

   Matthias