Re: [Jython-dev] Jython 2.7.2b1 -- ready to go?

[Jim B. <jim...@py...>]

Jeff,

I'm glad to hear this great news! We should proceed now as you suggest,
given that you have reached the far as you can tell point in the testing
process.

So let's use this beta to shake out the release process. At this point in
this release cycle, our code quality and corresponding testing is very
good, so it should not be considered an alpha. Future releases can build
further and also provide more assurance on shrinking the time to subsequent
releases. Gradle support is a good example here.

One nit: there's still an obsolete reference to Java 7 in
https://jython-devguide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_jy.html :
"At the time of writing we target Java 7."

- Jim

On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 2:57 AM Jeff Allen <ja...@fa...> wrote:

> I think the version of Jython now at the repo tip is, apart from changing
> the metadata, a viable Jython 2.7.2 beta.
>
> I have dry run the process several times to the point where I can make the
> artefacts that would go to Sonatype, at least as far as I can test that. I
> have ironed out the problems (as they arise on my machine) and worked on
> the ant scripts. I think it's a straight run now for Frank to build and
> publish.
>
> The process is here:
> https://jython-devguide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_jy.html
>
> I have bumped Jython up to Java 8. This broke a few things, now resolved.
> JarJar does not translate the later bytecode in the version we had used.
> (See issue 2806.) And Java 8 is picky about Javadoc, where apparently we've
> not been good :o(. I fixed over a hundred javadoc errors, but I'm leaving
> the warnings for a later burst of enthusiasm.
>
> A lot of bugs are fixed in this release and some features added as noted
> in NEWS. I still have misgivings around the number of suppressed tests (and
> so many places we can do it), and the way tests involving networking (SSL
> and Netty) contiunue to be flakey. The socket-related modules are an
> awesome achievement, but incomplete in some ways. However, one must not let
> the defects dominate one's thinking. So much is good and improved in 2.7.2,
> and this includes all the issues we prioritised in the triage.
>
> What do others think? Tag it?
>
> Jeff
>
> --
> Jeff Allen
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