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

[Omair Majid]

On 01/24/2012 07:45 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> ----- 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.
>

Yeah. I am fine with the extra work, btw.

> 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.

If I understand correctly, you will have to do this either way (if we 
were to release today or in a month), right?

Cheers,
Omair