Thanks, great. Let’s see Eric’s response to this indeed. Gj
On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 10:47, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > >
