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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-17 11:48:09

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:ud5eiorfd.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
> Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> A draft proposal is available at
>> http://mysite.verizon.net/beman/release_overview.html.
>>
>> I've put a fair amount of thought into this proposal, and have run some
>> Subversion simulations to make sure it works smoothly.
>>
>> What do others think?
>
> Mostly great.  I'm concerned about these time slots.  They don't seem
> necessary in principle since subversion has atomic commits, and they
> seem like they could introduce spurious lock contention on the
> repository.

Point taken, although I'm not sure how serious a problem it is.

If it is a real problem, maybe something link this:

   Step one: developers during the week merge into a "next" branch of 
stable.
   Step two: once a cycle (tentatively weekly), a single merge of the "next" 
branch into stable head is done.

--Beman