[orbit-dev] Ready for M7?

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Orbit-eers, 

I hope you all know M7 is coming up
soon, M7+0 is 5/1. Which, means our Orbit S-build should be promoted this
Friday, 4/24. 

Now the the bad news. I've been trying
to help the IT team upgrade some of the aging infrastructure, and it has
turned out to be much more difficult than any of us imagined. They have
made one huge improvement, to not "re-sign" bundles that have
already been signed. That should lead to much more consistent repositories,
and much fewer "verification errors". 

But, that is the reason I have not promoted
an I-build for a while even though I know there's been several additions
and changes. Sorry for the delay. 

The whole reason I have not promoted
one is that I also improved the build, so the "reference repo"
(used by "comparator" during mirroring) has been changed to be
the most recent I-build on downloads server. I'm embarrassed to admit for
years we've used "the last release" for reference repo (or, last
milestone), but this means there can be are small checksum differences
from milestone to milestone, and, of course I-build to I-build. In other
words, we are responsible for some of the slop in the system, compounded
by those that would "re-sign" our bundles. 

Bottom line is, I don't want to promote
another I-build until I am positive it is correct. (since, it will be the
reference for the next I-build). And I should say positive it is correct,
*or* positive we can not fix it for M7, in which case we'll "go back"
to the old way (of using Java 6 to re-pack, sign, and pack200. (sigh...
) 

Hopefully in another day or two it'll
will all get ironed out. (Watch Bug 463510
 if interested in nitty-gritty
... and who wouldn't be! 

If anyone want to look at just a few
bundles to see if your fixes got in, you can always go the to committers
area: 
http://build.eclipse.org/orbit/committers/

But, best not to use those for builds
yet, since otherwise, you'll be distributing ones that are "not right"
and will have to "touch" it later, so there is more recent version.


If the Friday deadline is a little too
tight, and you need another day or two, let me know. 

Thanks,