Upcoming Releases of 1.12.0 & 2.4.0

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
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> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Andrew Hughes <
> gnu.andrew at redhat.com > wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > Could you update the table in
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ReleasePolicy
> > with details about IcedTea 2.4?
> > 
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> I will as soon as it's released :-)
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> 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.

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> > 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/ ?
> > 
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> I'm not sure I follow. The following releases are currently
> supported:
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> 1.11.x
> 1.12.x
> 2.1.x
> 2.2.x
> 2.3.x
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> 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,
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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