On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Mark Taylor wrote:
> > I will tag (USSC218) the repository today if there are no more problems. But
> > in reality, it should be a mutual agreement between everyone when a tag is
> > worth doing. Are there changes since the freeze that should not go on the
> > CD? Come to think of it, a freeze should be a freeze, no further updates to
> > the repository until further notice. So I think the rule is, TAG is not
> > equal to freeze.
>
> Thanks for the clarifications Steve, that seems fair enough.
> There are more formal strategies for this based on branches
> (see Norman's comments at the bottom of the wiki CvsTagging page),
> or by checking out at the freeze date and using CVS tag rather than
> rtag, but I'm not necessarily saying those are better.
Hi Steve,
as Mark and others point out a "freeze" should really be a branch point in
the repository, not just a simple tag, and any necessary patches or
updates required during testing should be committed to that branch, while
the rest of us proceed with normal developments on the main branch (and
merge in changes from the release branch as needed).
> > Did people want me to downgrade the JRE, JDK and JAI or is everyone happy?
>
> I will do some more tests today, but personally I think I'm happy
> with the new versions. However if others (Peter) want to go back
> to the earlier versions I don't object to that either.
I've tested these now and am happy that nothing is broken, but we really
should deal with updating the JRE in the same fashion as a new compiler or
version of Perl, in principle there should be no issues, but in practice
there's always a strong chance that there will be.
Cheers,
Peter.
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