[Vm-team] New VM builds to support Squeak 4.1 release (was: [squeak-dev] 4.1 release tasks)
Ian, John, Andreas:
To support the upcoming Squeak 4.1 release (relicensed Squeak plus subsequent trunk development), we would like to provide updated VMs for all platforms over the next two weeks (target April 4 for completion).
The purpose of this message is to start a thread on vm-dev to drive completion of the "Ensure current VMs" task from Andreas' task list, see below.
I'm not sure that I'm entirely up to speed on our open issues (sorry), but I think that the following needs to be done:
- Merge and adopt John's 64-bit and iPhone changes (John, need guidance as to specific things we need to include for 4.1).
- Complete the SoundPlugin patches for 64-bit (or I will roll back the VMMaker patches until a later date if this cannot be easily completed).
- Updates to support John's microsecond timer changes for profiling.
- Review open Mantis issues for critical open concerns (my responsibility).
- If possible, include FT2Plugin in builds (important for Pharo folks, not essential for Squeak 4.1 support).
- Do the builds.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:11:24PM -0700, John M McIntosh wrote:
On 2010-03-17, at 8:28 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
[ ] Ensure current VMs What: Ensure that all platforms have current VMs available, with all required fixes applied. Who: VM maintainers When: April 4th
To do this I'll need some help folding the 64bit changes from macintosh squeak 5.x and the iphone port back into the tree
John, let me know how and if I can help. Given the short timeline, we should focus on essential changes that should be supported also by win32 and unix. I'm not clear on which things are needed in the near term.
For reference, the Squeak 4.1 release tasks thread is here: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-March/147166.htm...
And Andreas' original posting is repeated below:
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:28:56PM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
Folks -
As stated in the previous message, here is a thread to gather release tasks and the time frame in which they should be addressed. I'm taking the "4 weeks to release" rather literally below because I want to avoid excessive discussions about what we should do with feature x or y. Rather, I'm saying let's ship it as it is, get it out quickly, and spend our time moving forward from there. With that said, here we go:
[ ] Build a 4.1alpha trunk image What: We need to re-apply all the changes that went into trunk on top of 4.0 to create a proper 4.1 alpha. I'm planning to do this by the weekend and remove the previous trunk images since they're now obsolete. Who: Andreas When: March 20th
[ ] Feature Freeze trunk What: Feature freeze the trunk. Only fixes for identified issues go in. Who: All core-devs. When: March 28th
(this gives us one more week if you have anything that you feel strongly about)
[ ] Make tests green What: Review all the tests on all platform; identify failing tests, make them pass or document known failures. Who: ??? When: April 4th (this is a bit of wishful thinking...)
[ ] Ensure current VMs What: Ensure that all platforms have current VMs available, with all required fixes applied. Who: VM maintainers When: April 4th
[ ] Create a 4.1 release repository on source.squeak.org What: Create a release repository that we can point the release image to for subsequent 4.1 maintenance updates. Who: Any source.squeak.org admin When: ASAP.
[ ] Identify Mantis bugs that should be in 4.1 What: Categorize bugs that need to be looked at for the 4.1 release (does NOT imply fixing the bugs) Who: Everyone. When: April 4th.
[ ] Build release candidates What: Start building release candidates to ensure we have a process. Casey probably still has a few make files around. Who: ??? When: Ongoing.
[ ] Write welcome message, press release What: Write a welcome message, overview of changes, press release etc. Who: ??? When: April 4th.
As a time line we get:
ASAP:
- Create 4.1 release repository
March 20th:
- Build a 4.1alpha trunk image
March 28th:
- Feature Freeze
- RC1 build
April 4th:
- Green tests
- Updated VMs
- Mantis bugs organized
- Welcome message, press release
- RC2 build
April 11th:
- All bugs fixed (yeah, right :-)
- RC3 build
April 17th:
- Ship date
This is obviously a tight schedule but if we want to get the puppy out in four weeks we need to get schtuff done. I don't think it's unreasonable though; all the tasks are doable on their own, we just need a few people to step up and pick one they can help with.
Cheers,
- Andreas
On 2010-03-18, at 6:20 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
John, let me know how and if I can help. Given the short timeline, we should focus on essential changes that should be supported also by win32 and unix. I'm not clear on which things are needed in the near term.
Ok, well it's to do with how to setup the platform directory
I had put together Mac OS "obsolete" Mac OSObjC "objective C based plugins these are common plugins vm Common OSX plugins iPhone plugins iPad
However this makes VMMaker un-happy.
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:38:42PM -0700, John M McIntosh wrote:
On 2010-03-18, at 6:20 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
John, let me know how and if I can help. Given the short timeline, we should focus on essential changes that should be supported also by win32 and unix. I'm not clear on which things are needed in the near term.
Ok, well it's to do with how to setup the platform directory
I had put together Mac OS "obsolete" Mac OSObjC "objective C based plugins these are common plugins vm Common OSX plugins iPhone plugins iPad
However this makes VMMaker un-happy.
Without actually looking at what it will take to make VMMaker happy, my initial reaction would be that you should go ahead and establish the new directory structure, and we can figure out how to make VMMaker happy later. Does that work from your point of view? I am assuming that you have ways to do the builds yourself even with an unhappy VMMaker.
I would certainly want to try to do the VMMaker fixes in the same time frame, or at least by the time Squeak 4.1 is released, but even if that did not happen I would not expect it to be a show stopper.
I'm willing to work on the "make VMMaker happy" part.
Dave
On 2010-03-18, at 6:20 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
- Merge and adopt John's 64-bit and iPhone changes (John, need guidance
as to specific things we need to include for 4.1).
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-January/003614.html
- Updates to support John's microsecond timer changes for profiling.
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