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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-27 09:00:44

At 07:35 AM 10/26/02, David Abrahams wrote:
 >"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.

I'm happy with it too.  Jeff, please go ahead and change the release 
procedure docs.

Thanks,

--Beman