Pre-3.6 code freeze

[Will Coleda]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:38 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net> wrote:
> We are now in a code freeze prior to this coming Tuesday's release of Parrot
> 3.6.
>
> Please conduct any and all work on source code in branches rather than in
> master.  If you feel that your work ought to be merged in to master before
> the release, please test your branch thoroughly on multiple OSes and submit
> a git pull request.
>
> But, with the exception of patches which reduce the number of failing tests
> on Win32, our preference will be to defer any merges into master until after
> the release on Tuesday.
>
> What do we need between now and the release?
>
> * Patches that reduce the number of failing tests on Windows.
>
> * Smoke tests on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, Win32.
>
> * Build HLLs and run their tests on top of Parrot master.  Feedback on
> Rakudo Perl 6 on top of Parrot is particularly welcome.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> kid51
>
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It would also be nice to get updates to PLATFORMS. I just updated the
win7 entry (Thanks to Notfound and Whiteknight for investigating and
patching that platform), and removed all the 2009-vintage build
information, which doesn't leave us with much.




-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda