Re: [boost] Re: plans for a bugfix release ?

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-05 02:06:52

David Abrahams wrote:
> Thanks for all the testing; the release looks pretty darned great!

Just to make sure it's understood - although "expected", all the green
failures are still failures. Not that we can do much about them, of course.

>From a user POV, a darned great release would be the one for which
http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/resources/cvs_RC_1_30_0/user_summary_page.html
would reveal a clear green field, without any "details" links to check.

>
>
http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/resources/cvs_RC_1_30_0/developer_result_page.html
>
> Only one red box (intel-7.1-stlport lexical_cast)!

... which means a regression from 1.30.0 ;). To be fair, quite a few
failures have been fixed (dark green cells) -

http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/resources/cvs_RC_1_30_0/developer_summary_page.html

Still, it would be nice if we didn't release until _all_ regressions are
fixed.

Aleksey