[boost] [1.33.1] Goals, tasks, schedule

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-29 16:32:04

Certain issues that cropped up with the 1.33.0 release that necessitate 
a 1.33.1 release. 1.33.1 will be for safe bug fixes to 1.33.0 only, 
focusing on critical issues such as the already-addressed shared_ptr 
problem. There are two major issues we need to resolve before we can 
roll a release candidate of 1.33.1:

   - Include order dependencies in the Serialization library
   - GCC 4.0 type_info problems

This is also a good opportunity to work in support for three compilers 
that are performing reasonably well now and should be supported by 
Boost:

        - Tru64 CXX
        - Apple GCC 4.0 on Tiger
        - Intel 9.0 on Linux

We'll prepare the release candidate from the RC_1_33_0 branch, 
hopefully within a week or so, depending on the resolution of these 
issues. The release candidates will be available for much longer before 
the final release, up to a month or so, to root out any remaining 
issues.

No new libraries or features may be added to the RC_1_33_0 branch; they 
should go onto the main branch, and we'll merge fixes from RC_1_33_0 
back once we've released.

        Doug