Re: [Jython-dev] 2.7.2 for the New Year?

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

I forgot Jeff specifically proposed gradle being experimental, so basically
take this mail as a vote for that I guess.

Cheers
Adam

On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 20:55, Adam Burke <ada...@gm...> wrote:

> I just checked out out the head for the first time in a while and regrtest
> is green for me under Windows and Java 8. Great to see.
>
> <0.02 put in jar>
>
> From my (front-row?) spectator seat, I think more frequent patch releases
> wouldn't hurt. It's been a fair while since 2.7.1. If the tests are green,
> bugs have been fixed, and more stuff works in 2.7.2 than 2.7.1, I would
> vote to ship.
>
> If the gradle stuff is working well enough to produce a jar, it could be
> included and marked experimental? I'm sure it would be useful to projects
> with dependencies on jython from maven or gradle projects.
>
> Obviously it would be good to announce the beta on the website though.
>
> Cheers
> Adam
>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 09:55, Jeff Allen <ja...@fa...> wrote:
>
>> Happy New Year.
>>
>> We didn't get 2.7.2 out in 2018, but I think it is within reach to do so
>> in the first half of 2019, with a beta in (say) February.
>>
>> The triage I did last Spring appears still to be valid. What looked like
>> a highly focussed list proved to contain some many-headed problems.
>> There are still 14 open issues in the milestone, but I would say that
>> the difficult ones have yielded most of the way. We have done some work
>> not in the original target because of enthusiasm or outside contributions.
>>
>> Web site: not sure what the blockage is, but I think we need it to
>> launch the beta release.
>>
>> Gradle support: I believe "support" means we produce artefacts others
>> may use in a Gradle build. Jim originally considered Gradle support to
>> be essential, but has moderated that (elsewhere in this thread). My view
>> is that it is highly desirable, but I don't know quite what to produce,
>> although another thread in this list contains a helpful discussion. I'd
>> like to make Gradle experimental in beta so we can get some experience
>> and feedback.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> Jeff Allen
>>
>> On 26/02/2018 03:00, fwi...@gm... wrote:
>> > Hi Jeff - some comments inline:
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 12:49 AM, Jeff Allen <ja...@fa...>
>> wrote:
>> >> It's still the New Year :)
>> >>
>> >> We currently have 85 open bugs tagged Milestone 2.7.2, and about 250
>> others.
>> >> (20 or so are tagged 2.7.1 or 2.7.0, but I think that's mostly a
>> >> misunderstanding at the time they were raised.) It's hard for me to say
>> >> which should be show-stoppers.
>> >>
>> >> I thought I'd at least read them all. So far I've got 2 categories:
>> "fairly
>> >> sure I can close" and "that's not simple".
>> >>
>> >> I think we should have tagged as Milestone 2.7.2 only those things we
>> have a
>> >> serious intention to fix by the end of 2.7.2b, and everything else
>> >> decisively put off. Knowledgeable contributions to this process would
>> be
>> >> welcome.
>> > That sounds right to me, we can put others into a 2.7.3 Milestone
>> perhaps.
>> >
>> >> I think (below) Frank bids a GitHub-based website as part of the 2.7.2,
>> >> which I think is highly desirable for communication reasons.
>> > Yes I need to look at the logistics of getting a github based website
>> > up and running. I'll try to find some time to look into that soonish.
>> >
>> > Thanks for looking into this and keeping the ball rolling!
>> >
>> > -Frank
>> >
>>
>>
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