Re: [boost] Proposal for radically altered approach to releases

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-11 14:41:23

"Michael Fawcett" <michael.fawcett_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:bc5bffe80605110802m1bf6ca76k5056fb494148ce9e_at_mail.gmail.com...
> On 5/11/06, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> <pasted from proposal>
>
>> We might say Sunday and Monday are merge days, Tuesday through Friday are 
>> test days, > and Saturday is tag day. Since it is possible to 
>> automatically tell if unexpected failures have > occurred, tagging can be 
>> by automatically scheduled script.
>
> I know you were using a simplified example and you probably had
> something more concrete in mind, but do consider everyone's varying
> timezones (you probably did, or have a solution that makes the point
> moot).  Perhaps a SVN script that freezes stable during certain hours
> so that merges can't occur.  Then developers don't have to check some
> schedule online and do the time conversion themselves.

Good points. I've added a note on time slots.