Re: [boost] The Release Manager's Point of View

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-06 23:31:38

Beman Dawes wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> * Bugs attributed 1.34.0 <http://tinyurl.com/2cn7g6>, and only a small 
>> number of them are targeted for 1.34.1.
>>
>> * The inspection reports 193 non-license problems, and *1059* license 
>> problems.
>>
>> * We don't test the build and install process.
>>
>> * We don't test libraries against an installed release.
>>
>> * We don't test release versions, even though this is the most used 
>> variant by users.
>>
>> * We don't test, to any effective means, 64 bit architectures.
>>
>> * We don't test, to any effective means, multi-cpu architectures.
> 
> Stable doesn't mean perfect.

If that's the case you need to make that clear in your descriptions. 
Because it seems to say the opposite. But I wasn't talking about 
perfection either. Most of the list above isn't a "we need to fix 
something", but a "we have no clue what needs fixing". This is because 
we just don't know what the bugs really are. Since we don't test most of 
what people use Boost for. Hence I personally can't call the Boost 
release "stable" under most definitions, except perhaps to mean 
"unchanging".

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