On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 06:08, Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > I must add that a sign of a big breakthrough in NetBeans progress is > historically always right at the point of my greatest despair — which is > good because that point is now: we’ve missed our release date, might not > make it at all this month, which will have knock on effects.
There's plenty else of concern in the world right now to be despairing on this. And the release window is May 15-31 anyway - we haven't missed it yet, although probably be tight. > I propose we accept Neil’s minimal solution that at least solves the > problem, that Eric includes it in a beta 5 to be released by Monday, and > that we use that to start voting immediately, aiming in a very best case > scenario to release end of next week. Final call on this is up to Eric, but -1 from me. We can't vote on the beta build anyway, and I'm in favour of having a week of beta5 before voting - there are a range of other fixes to test in there too, and let's make sure this isn't still causing problems. We tried rushing changes directly into a vote with 11.1, and it was a false economy - it ended up taking almost a fortnight longer. We could all take the time that beta is being tested to ensure we've checked all the "paperwork" though - we can all build it from source, do notice, binary checks, etc. and make sure there's nothing there that might cause issues in the vote. All being well vc1 will then just be a retagged beta5, and we might still just scrape May 31st if we can get beta build done this week. Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
