[Jython-dev] 2.7.1rc, to infinity and beyond!

[Jeff A. <ja...@fa...>]

Excellent news! A lot has gone on between 2.7.0 and 2.7.1. it's good to 
find we've all feel "done"at the same time :)

Small typo in your front page: "many others to thanks".

I have a weak preference for calling it RC2 given there was change after 
RC1. I think RC1 still identifies a release, even if it was announced 
softly, and what we have now is different.

There's a bit more to cutting over to Git than declaring it so. I've 
been watching CPython do this with the corner of one eye. We will have 
both bugs.jython.org and Git pull requests for a while ... essentially 
forever. There was some integration work (which we should steal, but 
that depends, I suspect, on upgrading the tracker) and conventions for 
how to refer to one from the other. It was tough at points because of 
disagreement on how it were best done, but we can just go along with 
their conclusion. And s/bpo/bjo/.

Jeff Allen

On 27/05/2017 01:12, Jim Baker wrote:
> Agreed. It's time for putting this release candidate out! I'm also 
> glad about the timing, because this mean Stefan has a great base to 
> build this summer's work on JyNI. I believe it's technically RC1 still 
> because the last RC was a soft release, but Frank knows those specifics.
>
> I just ran the "yolk smoke test" from http://bugs.jython.org/issue2570 
> <http://bugs.jython.org/issue2570> one last time, just to make sure. 
> Everything looks great!
>
> After this we can look into:
>
> 1. Finally get jython.org <http://jython.org> revamped. I suggest the 
> simplicity — and modern look — of GitHub pages, where we can host and 
> then point jython.org <http://jython.org> accordingly.
> 2. Switch to the Gradle build that Darjus has been working on
> 3. Cut over to https://github.com/jython/jython with rewritten history 
> that removes extlib jars for a subsequent release of 2.7.x, where x > 
> 1 (maybe it's 12 for the next release, but we can decide later).
>
> Lastly, I also felt it was important to highlight Stefan's 
> contribution to helping finalize 2.7.1, as well as our appreciation to 
> Google for supporting him this summer for the Google Summer of Code. 
> First win for GSOC 2017 in other words. Duly noted as of 
> https://hg.python.org/jython/rev/ab5434be88aa
>
> - Jim
>
>
>
> On May 26, 2017 7:24 PM, "Stefan Richthofer" <Ste...@gm... 
> <mailto:Ste...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     > You can apply these updates to extlibs
>     Done as of https://hg.python.org/jython/rev/f6b3ddbc1df8
>     <https://hg.python.org/jython/rev/f6b3ddbc1df8>.
>     From my point of view we can launch Jython 2.7.1-RC2 now.
>     - no open PRs on github left
>     - no release blockers left apparently except #2487
>     - all updates done as far as possible (python std-lib will be next
>     challenge on this front)
>     So, I'd suggest everybody pushes last-minute work and Frank hits
>     the release-button... :-)
>     What do you think?
>     Cheers!
>     -Stefan
>
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