[Mono-dev] Mono 3.6 release? (Mono-devel-list Digest, Vol 112, Issue 12)

[Jo Shields]

On 08/13/2014 01:47 PM, Bob Summerwill wrote:
>>> I would be delighted to contribute all of these Tizen changes back to
> Xamarin,
>>> including reassigning copyright of all the build scripts and VM
> building.
>
>>> I would also be happy to pay for any VMs and storage capacity which you
> need
>>> to carry that.  Ditto for hardware costs for ARM on Linux.
>
> I guess the non-reply means "no thanks" on both of those offers?
>
> The Mono 3.6 Releases Notes page was created about a week ago:
>
>      http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_3.6
>
> Xamarin.iOS-7.2.6 which was released about a week ago states "Mono
> runtime/BCL updated to 3.6":
>
>      http://developer.xamarin.com/releases/ios/xamarin.ios_7/xamarin.ios_7.2/
>
> As of yesterday the Mono Project downloads page is showing Mono 3.6 links:
>
>      http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html
>
> Damien notes ...
>
>      They did not tag the HEAD of the branch, but an older commit!  But we
>      already had a set of RPMs based on that, so no rebuild was necessary.
>      I have updated MonoTizen's gh-pages to point to the matching binaries:
>      2d7113a..9f8394f  gh-pages -> gh-pages
>
> So can we consider Mono 3.6 to be released?    Will there be a release
> announcement today?

Yes, 3.6.0 is released now, I did the uploads yesterday evening. I'm 
still finding my feet on process and procedure for releases but that 
should improve in the coming months.

> I will update the http://monotizen.com page to include links to the Tizen
> RPMs, and make my own announcement.

In the short term, I think that's the best plan - there's a bucket of 
stuff on my TODO list to help reach a wider Linux-based audience, but I 
don't have the systems and procedures in place right now for anything 
Tizen-related to make sense (there's more to it than just adding some VMs).

You would likely reach the Tizen developer community far more 
effectively than I would, right now. Down the line, as I find my feet 
more and get the underlying structures in place, coordinating becomes 
much easier.