IcedTea7 2.0 Branched for Release

Matthias Klose doko at ubuntu.com
Fri Sep 30 10:37:26 PDT 2011


Mark,

would you be able to start and moderate these threads?

  Matthias

On 09/30/2011 12:08 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Heay,
> 
> This discussions seems a little overheated.
> You might want to split it up a bit.
> 
> Clearly picking a data for a release should be properly discussed. There
> were more considerations than just "Monday seems a nice day for it". I
> like the explanation of taking a security update data and the 7u2
> integration date into account. Would have been nice to have that in the
> original suggestion send out (and no, I don't think it is strange not
> everybody knows about those dates, please always err on the side of
> people having overlooked such details and just provide them again). In
> the future it would certainly be nice to give more people a bit more
> time to prepare, even though someone has to do it, please give long
> enough advance warning when, so everybody can plan towards a date. Even
> though clearly in the end someone just has to do it, and clearly Andrew
> does most of the work, please respect that. But please also do give
> others who might have less dedicated time a bit more heads up.
> 
> Clearly there are some other (technical and procedural) issues, but lets
> try not to mix them all together in one and the same thread. I get the
> impression that if the subject had just been the date of the release
> there would quickly have been agreement. But mixing it with some other
> lingering issues was not a smart thing.
> 
> It certainly might be good to have a discussion about the use of
> forests, having autobuilders test different/more things, what
> commit/review/release policies are and what breakage is (un)acceptable
> in the various components (clearly the autobuilders can help a bit with
> monitoring that if setup properly). Lets start separate threads for
> that.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark




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