[SECURITY] IcedTea 3.1.0 for OpenJDK 8 Released!

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Well, yes... give me chance!
> 
> 
> Please don't get me wrong!. Thanks for the great release. I just wanted to
> tweet about it and link to any sort of formal release statement on the web,
> went to the wiki/blog, and saw none.
> So I ended up tweeting about it and linking to the source download dir view.
> 

Don't get me wrong, it's nice that you're so eager. It's just getting far enough
to release the tarball took long enough... :P

I think this is what you wanted: https://twitter.com/gnu_andrew_java/status/758275281417273344

> Maybe, and this is just a thought, you could put in place a system where
> you write the same notice you sent to this list, and instead of pasting it
> into an e-mail and then having to paste it again on the wiki/blog, you
> could set up the blog/wiki so you write the notice about releases just ONCE
> on the wiki/blog and it's the wiki/blog back-end which sends the automatic
> notice to this list?.

Sounds more complicated than it's worth, to be honest. The blog version is a
good chance to proof-read it and catch any mistakes, while the e-mail goes out
as soon as I upload the tarball.

> 
> Just thinking aloud of ways you could avoid the duplication of manual work.
> :)
> 
> FC
> -
> During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
> act
> - George Orwell
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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

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