Upcoming Releases of 1.12.0 & 2.4.0

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 02/20/2013 01:20 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Andrew Hughes <
> >> gnu.andrew at redhat.com > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> Could you update the table in
> >>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ReleasePolicy
> >>> with details about IcedTea 2.4?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I will as soon as it's released :-)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Oops, I guess I thought it was, especially with the 2.4 release
> >> forest already existing.
> >>
> >
> > My fault.  I should have posted more news on what was going on, but it's
> > been kinda hectic.  I was all set to release it just after FOSDEM, then
> > the security update happened.  Then, by the time we recovered from that,
> > another one happened.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>> Also, could you clarify the new maintainership of IcedTea6 1.12,
> >>> perhaps by s/1.11/1.x/ and perhaps s/IcedTea/IcedTea 2.x/ ?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I'm not sure I follow. The following releases are currently
> >> supported:
> >>
> >> 1.11.x
> >> 1.12.x
> >> 2.1.x
> >> 2.2.x
> >> 2.3.x
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> What I mean is - who is maintaining what?
> >> You are listed as the maintainer of "IcedTea", while Omair is listed
> >> as the maintainer of "1.11". But that's probably not quite right -
> >> I'm guessing you are the maintainer of 2.x, while Omair is the
> >> maintainer of 1.x (including 1.12), which isn't clear from the first
> >> table.
> >>
> >
> > Oh, right, sorry.  It's not really that formal and it tends to work
> > more as Omair will do the release if I'm not around to do it i.e.
> > whoever wants to pitches in and does things, and it generally makes
> > sense with security updates to do the lot together as they'll be
> > mostly the same patches.  For example, the last set had a common
> > set for 6 & 7, then two more just for 7 (JSR 292 stuff).  It
> > doesn't really make sense for someone to patch 1.11.x while someone
> > is patching 1.12.x as work would be duplicated; we generally patch
> > one then backport the changeset.
> >
> > I should probably just change that page to list us both as IcedTea
> > maintainers; the whole 'Omair = 1.11" is a bit silly and not even
> > reflective of reality.  But I'll check with him first.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> 
> 
> Just heads up as I'm looking forward to move f19 and rawhide to 2.4, please
> note, that there have
> been several TCK failures  during last testing of HEAD/2.4pre.
> 
> Thanx for keeping IcedTea alive for us:)
> 

Thanks :)

Hopefully, 2.4.0 will be out this month. It's been repeatedly delayed by all
the security releases.

> 
> J.
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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

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