Re: [boost] Development and Release Practices

From: Greg Colvin (greg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-31 15:34:58

On Aug 8, 2007, at 7:39 AM, David Abrahams wrote:
>
> on Tue Aug 07 2007, "Peter Dimov" <pdimov-AT-pdimov.com> wrote:
>
>> Finally, a philosophical point.
>>
>> I'm slowly coming to the realization that the problem we're having  
>> is not
>> caused by lack of process or lack of tools. It's caused by the  
>> fact that
>> release management (at this point) is a full time job.
>
> Philosophical?  Sounds entirely practical to me.
>
> Peter, with all due respect (and much is due), "no duh!"  The question
> is, what makes it a full time job?

A few things come to mind, belatedly.

It's a big job, because Boost is a big collection of libraries.

It's a hard job, involving cat herding and code herding.

It's not the kind of job that many eyeballs make shallow.