[boost] Re: Release schedule for 1.31.0

From: Michael Stevens (Michael.Stevens_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-22 11:30:40

Hi Beman,

>
> Starting November 3rd, I'm planning to work on 1.31.0 more or less 
> full-time until it is complete.

This is excellent news.

>
> There are a couple of libraries (Iterator adaptors, Random numbers) 
> that are awaiting documentation updates, IIRC. It would be helpful if 
> those documentation updates are complete by the 17th of November. 

The documentation issue with Random numbers has been worrying me for a 
while. Jens dropped the new (standard proposed) code into CVS a couple 
of month ago. Apart from a couple of typos and problems with gcc-2.95.3 
it looks good. However Jens seems to be off the air at the moment, 
certianly a very minor patch (removing an additional ';') has not made 
it into CVS.

What should we do if Jens can not fix the documentation in time? The old 
documents with the new interface is VERY VERY confusing! A few crucuial 
concepts have changed.

> The plan for this release is to produce a full release candidate 
> directory tree, and have it available (at www.boost.org/1_31_0 or 
> similar) for inspection prior to the actual release.

Not sure of the advantage of the over simply tagging the release 
candidate in CVS!

All the best,
    Michael