IcedTea7 2.0 Branched for Release

[Matthias Klose]

On 09/29/2011 12:58 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> IcedTea7 2.0 has now branched for release.  I plan to do the release
> on Monday evening here in the UK, pending major issues.

I disagree.  If this release is needed for some deadline, then call it a
pre-release.  There are still long outstanding issues.

 - You did hijack release-management from existing release
   maintainers, did change commit and release policies on
   your own, and disallow others in editing these policies.
   The request to change this behaviour is now ignored for
   months [1].

 - The movement to the "forest" development model doesn't
   help many people, only a few.  It's not communicated,
   only a few more equal IcedTea developers have commit
   rights, the regression testers use the icedtea7 branch,
   and iiuc, people like Xerxes still have difficulties
   or issues contributing to the icedtea7 forest.

   Throwing over changes from the forest is not communicated,
   and it does break alternate VMs on a more or less regular basis.

 - As communicated before, releases should be announced at
   least a working week before the release, better two. Letting
   people to have 1-2 work days before a release with the last
   dump from the forest only two ore three days past is ridiculous
   (and then having the release day on a bank holiday). If
   you do have a deadline, cut a pre-release.  The time is
   too short to even run tests on some architectures, or
   even better to give time to address these.

To go forward, I propose to set the release date to Mon, Oct 17 (or Tue, Oct 18
if this is a bank holiday in the UK/US).  This also gives time to address the
issues about commit and release policies.  The project is still called IcedTea,
not AndrewsTea.

  Matthias

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-May/014156.html