IcedTea7 2.0 Branched for Release

[Mark Wielaard]

Heay,

This discussions seems a little overheated.
You might want to split it up a bit.

Clearly picking a data for a release should be properly discussed. There
were more considerations than just "Monday seems a nice day for it". I
like the explanation of taking a security update data and the 7u2
integration date into account. Would have been nice to have that in the
original suggestion send out (and no, I don't think it is strange not
everybody knows about those dates, please always err on the side of
people having overlooked such details and just provide them again). In
the future it would certainly be nice to give more people a bit more
time to prepare, even though someone has to do it, please give long
enough advance warning when, so everybody can plan towards a date. Even
though clearly in the end someone just has to do it, and clearly Andrew
does most of the work, please respect that. But please also do give
others who might have less dedicated time a bit more heads up.

Clearly there are some other (technical and procedural) issues, but lets
try not to mix them all together in one and the same thread. I get the
impression that if the subject had just been the date of the release
there would quickly have been agreement. But mixing it with some other
lingering issues was not a smart thing.

It certainly might be good to have a discussion about the use of
forests, having autobuilders test different/more things, what
commit/review/release policies are and what breakage is (un)acceptable
in the various components (clearly the autobuilders can help a bit with
monitoring that if setup properly). Lets start separate threads for
that.

Thanks,

Mark