preparing an IcedTea6-1.8 release

[Matthias Klose]

On 16.03.2010 18:03, Matthias Klose wrote:
> 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 =)

Some may have noticed, that the 1.8 is not yet created, sorry about that. will 
now create the branch on Mar 25/26 and looking for the Apr 1st release. Please 
no more changes to the build system before we branch.

Done some builds as sanity checks on *-linux, including one and two stage 
builds, with old and new hotspot, and builds configured --with-additional-vms; 
test results look good, no build failures.

Submitted some new bug reports for the NP Plugin (which seems to work well on 
many applets).

   Matthias