preparing an IcedTea6-1.8 release

[Matthias Klose]

On 23.03.2010 19:02, Matthias Klose wrote:
> 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.

The branch is now created and available at
icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.8

Please start testing the branch.

   Matthias