Hi all, A little reminder. We want to release a new GNU Classpath snapshot release (0.06) next Friday (August 15).
Things to do/decide before the release: - What should really go in before the release? - There are still some open bugs: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=classpath Not all are analyzed yet, but although it would be nice to fix/close some of these there don't seem to be any showstoppers. - There is still one open patch for SecurityManager/VMSecurityManager http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=1031&group_id=85 Don't know how urgent this is. I would like to see a real design how to handle this and related methods in a VM independent way, but that is probably not 0.06 material. (JRVM hackers, how important is it that this goes in? We can always add a hack for 0.06 if that really helps you out.) - Is there any progress on the Thread/VMThread split? Would be nice to get that in, but it will require work to make it work with the different VMs so it better go in quickly (today/tomorrow). - Is something else important missing? Please email me/the list with suggestions. - Creating release tar balls. I am playing with this now. It seems that this is not to difficult (Just type: make dist). Have to check to things: - How to get gjdoc installed and generate correct api documentation. - Why my make install does not create any plain .so files (The .0, .0.0.0 and .la do get installed, but I have to symlink the .so to the .0.0.0 files by hand...) - Update the NEWS file. - It contains all VM interface changes which is good. - It should contain all important additions/bug fixes made for this release. This can be done by going through the bug/patch database and the ChangeLog file. (Any volunteers?) - Bumping the version number and tag the CVS treee (DON'T FORGET!) - Will do this just before the final release. - Upload the release to alpha.gnu.org - Some yoyo thought it would be funny to crack the main GNU file server. So they had to disable all accounts, reinstall the whole machine and clean everything up :{ Hopefully this will be done before Friday, otherwise we have to host the tar ball somewhere else for the moment. - Create release notes and post them to relevant forums. - Should be easy by taking the news items regarding older releases <http://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group=classpath> and combine them with the NEWS items. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath