[Sablevm-developer] Warning: devel release approaching

[Grzegorz B. P. <ga...@de...>]

Hi all!

Today David and I were granted write access to "bugfree"s. I have some
ideas how/when I see the devel release should happen, but I'd like to
hear comments, if you have better/different ideas/beliefs about it.

The plan - how I see it:
- I put current staging (preferably tarball created w/ 'make dist' into
Debian and let people (and autobuilders) test it for a short while
- make necessary bug fixes, but if there're not major showstoppers
- move current staging to bugfree and make a release (by a request
to Etienne to make a tags for it)
(and I finally package 1.1.0 for Debian ;-)

Now disclaimers:
- we need to document our numbering schema in Wiki (I'll do this)
- we can make another devel release in a few days if we have important
bugs fixed, I see no reason to impose any requirements on when devel
releases can happen
- apparently we have a regression in threading support as compared
to 1.0.9 release and I don't think we can release 1.2.0 w/ this unfixed,
but holding devel release will hurt more, than this problem alone.
- we should have a step-by-step "making a release" process described,
like ex. subversion (or ArgoUML?) guys have (I'll do this too)
- under the assumption that all bugs in SableVM are also present
in its Debian version - we encourage people to use Debian BTS,
(or -devel ML - after all it's _devel_ release).

Question:
- Do you know about any other regressions or bugs that we have
currently in staging? Please tell us.

If we're to wait for ideal conditions to make a release - they will
never happen. We have what we have and IMO it is more than good enough
for people to test it. In most of areas it is far superior to old 1.0.9.
And w/o testing we wont make it really bugfree.

Cheers,

				Grzegorz B. Prokopski

PS: I want the above to happen really soon now. I am just having
troubles making new classpath compile like I'd like it to be
(but it's debian specific thing, no worries) so it takes longer
than I'd like it to be. But I am really working on it.