Pushing back the IcedTea6 1.11 release: 2012-01-25

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 01/23/2012 04:21 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> On 01/18/2012 11:23 AM, Omair Majid wrote:
> >>> How does 1 week (2012-01-25) sound?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Things are looking much better with the arm stuff now. It looks
> >> like
> >> IcedTea6 1.11 on 2012-01-25 will be doable.
> >>
> >
> > I don't think this is a good idea.  There's an upcoming security
> > release
> > that will make such a release obsolete just three weeks after:
> >
> > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html
> >
> > Would it not be better to just wait and release 1.11 with these
> > security
> > fixes?
> 
> FWIW, I think three weeks of users being able to benefit from the
> release is still worth it.
> 

Well, you're the one doing the work twice over in a short space of time,
so it's up to you.

My worry is that this obsoletes 1.8 and then provides a security update
just three weeks later.  Under the circumstances, I think a further 1.8
release with the security updates is in order before obsoleting that branch.

> 
> Cheers,
> Omair
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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