Release announcement suggestions for 0.7

[William Cohen]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I came up with the following as ideas for when we want to make a new
> release. It should list all major changes since the last numbered
> release (0.6.2) in March. Although I am sure I missed some things. And I
> might have misunderstood some changes or made some mistakes trying to
> summarize. So comments more than welcome.
> 
> I'll also add the changes to NEWS (if they aren't already in there, lots
> of info actually came from the NEWS file) unless people point out any
> mistakes.
> 
> I didn't really know what to put under Known Issues. Unless people can
> think of some urgent things to list there I will remove that section.
> 
> I listed all the bugs fixes since 0.6.2, plus their resolution. But I
> think I will remove the ones that are marked DUPLICATE, INVALID,
> WORKSFORME and WONTFIX since they are probably not really interesting.
> 
> There are lists of test results (make installcheck) on various systems I
> had access to. The 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 results don't look that good
> though and are from a qemu-kvm instance. On real hardware I have not
> been able to get a full make installcheck run because the machine will
> randomly hang. Till now I have been unable to get to the bottom of this
> issue (and strangely in a virtual environment everything seems fine).
> 
> Maybe we should include some results on other architectures so people
> know what to expect?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 

The tests results for the syscalls use to be better (only rt_signal failing). 
Currently the following syscall tests are failing on RHEL-5 x86_64:

FAIL: 64-bit access
FAIL: 64-bit chmod
FAIL: 32-bit access
FAIL: 32-bit chmod
FAIL: 32-bit rt_signal

-Will