[jvanek at redhat.com: visual vm 1.3.1]

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

[Forwarding to distro-pkg-dev as public items such as releases should be discussed there]

----- Forwarded message from Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> -----

Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:08:49 +0100
From: Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com>
Subject: visual vm 1.3.1
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Hi!
I had prepared visualvm harness 1.1. and uploaded to download/sources
as 1.0 was used to be.
I have also updated our package to visualvm to 1.3.1, harness 1.1,
profiler 6.9-1.
It is awaiting in testrepo, and will be here, untill way "how with"
visualvm  will be set.

Regards J.

----- End forwarded message -----

I don't believe we have even properly discussed a 1.1 release of the
VisualVM harness yet, let alone made such a release.  Such releases
need to be discussed on the public list (distro-pkg-dev) so that everyone
has a chance to give their input.

I have asked, both by e-mail and on IRC, for you to post any patches
you want for such a release but have only seen one so far
(http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-January/011643.html). The
discussion on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640205
suggests that more changes are needed before we make a new release and
a quick look at the spec file in Fedora confirmed this to me.

I tried to make some of the necessary changes but found that my work
was being ignored by the Fedora build as it was downloading a 1.1
tarball.  This seems to have been published to the IcedTea server
without any discussion.  I'm afraid I've had to remove this in order
to proceed with work on VisualVM.  Apologies to anyone who may have
been depending on it, but it doesn't seem to have been announced
anywhere.

We provide the VisualVM harness as an upstream project so that all
distributions can benefit.  Thus, where possible, we expect changes
to be pushed to the harness rather than being kept locally in the
distribution packages so that more people can benefit.  At present,
the Fedora spec file for VisualVM seems to have several modifications
(patches and the movement of installed files) which can be upstreamed
for the benefit of all, and I would like to see these in the repository
before any further releases are made.

Additionally, when submitting patches for review, please attach them
to an e-mail describing fully the motivation for it with a ChangeLog
entry.  It is very hard to review a patch if we don't know why it is
being submitted in the first place or what it does.

Thanks,
--
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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