preparing an IcedTea6-1.8 release

[Matthias Klose]

On 16.03.2010 17:57, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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.

sure, if this one isn't good enough, then we should delay the release for one 
week and try again. I like April 1st releases =)

   Matthias