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

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-07 00:34:09

"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:f47tn9$s20$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
>> That's the problem. No one seems to make an effort to read what I 
>> propose.
>> My solution assumes that no testing is done during release, none 
>> whatsoever.
>> Only components that already tested and individually released by 
>> developers
>> will go into umbrella boost release.
>
> That's what I'm proposing, too:-)
>
> And, yes, in theory it shouldn't be necessary to explicitly test the
> release branch. In practice, stuff happens, so we will still need to
> test it.

Can you explain for me:

1. What is the release branch and why we need this notion?
2. What staff can happened so we  will have to do testing during release?

Gennadiy