Re: [boost] Change to Release Procedure? (was: Another remindertomerge changes from the release branch)

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-26 07:35:13

"Jeff Garland" <jeff_at_[hidden]> writes:

> > > So I think we are in agreement that the current release procedure
> > > could be improved....
> > 
> > I hope we also agree on a specific way to improve it.
> > Do we?
> 
> Let's see:
> 
> 1) You have convinced me that we should be merging out to 
> the release candidate instead of into the main, so that's
> one change.
> 
> 2) We will need to make sure that regression tests are 
> frequently run on the main during the release period as 
> well as on the release candidate branch.
> 
> 3) Any fixes made on the release candidate branch to
> fix regression problems not detectible on the main
> branch -- say because the main is broken for some reason --
> should be merged immediately to the main.  This should 
> be very rare.
> 
> How's that?

I'm happy with all of that. I think #2 can be slightly de-emphasized
(but only slightly): the main trunk naturally gets a lot more testing
than the RC branch because developers are using it.

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                    David Abrahams
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