preparing an IcedTea6-1.8 release

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 16 March 2010 16:49, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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'd like to get rid of the old plugin but that should be done by tomorrow.
I have plenty of pending build work but it's not needed for 1.8.

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

I'm assuming that gets delayed if issues are found, right?  I'm sure
we all want a quality release, not one rushed out for a deadline.

>  Matthias
>

Thanks for handling this,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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