Re: [boost] Updated Development and Release Practices for 1.35.0

From: Frank Birbacher (bloodymir.crap_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-05 20:32:20

Hi!

Vladimir Prus schrieb:
> 2. Say Boost 1.35 is released. Week later, a big source-incompatible
> change to some library is merged to release-ready tree. Week later, a serious
> bug is found in another library. Is there a place where that bug can be
> fixed? Release-ready tree already has source-incompatible change to other
> library? In other words -- from which tree is 1.35.1 going to be released?

Should we have a "release-ready tree" and a "release-1-35-fixing" branch
which gets all fixes merged in? The "source incompatible" change would
only go into the release-ready-tree but not into the release-1-35-fixing
tree (which can be tagged as release-1-35-1 when done fixing/when
releasing).

Frank