Time to branch for IcedTea6 1.11 ?

[Deepak Bhole]

* Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> [2011-12-21 12:08]:
> On 12:01 Wed 21 Dec     , Omair Majid wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 12/08/2011 05:22 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > > I'd like to do a release, primarily for ARM.
> > >
> > 
> > I would like to volunteer to be the release manager for this icedtea6 
> > release branch.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Omair
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Nomination accepted :-)
>

+1
 
Cheers,
Deepak

> I'd suggest we don't actually create the branch until the new year
> to give people time to prepare for it.  For one thing, with all the
> recent build issues, I'm not sure it's in an amazingly stable state
> right now.
> 
> There are also a number of fixes I've seen being directed upstream
> that should really be in IcedTea6 (e.g. the javadoc class file issue
> which I've hit when building java-gnome).
> -- 
> Andrew :)
> 
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