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

[Adam B. <ada...@gm...>]

I know I'm a lurker and not an active dev, but I'd prefer the rc2 name as
well, fwiw.

Cheers
Adam

On 27 May 2017 at 15:33, Jeff Allen <ja...@fa...> wrote:

> 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/r
>> ev/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
>>
>> <snip>
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