Re: [boost] 1.35 release procedure questions

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-31 14:12:01

John Maddock wrote:
> Robert Ramey wrote:
>> A related question.  I've got a fairly extensive set of changes that
>> I would hope to be uploading to the trunk in the next 2 weeks or so. I 
>> will have tested the package on my own setup, but the changes are
>> such that I would expect some surprizes on configurations I don't
>> have access to.  Can this be done anytime I find convenient? Or
>> should I wait for some particular set of conditions to present
>> themselves.
> 
> The release manager (Beman) is away until Tuesday, but as I understand the 
> state of things, he hopes to start moving libraries from Trunk to the 
> release branch later this week. That means that (possibly) breaking changes 
> at this stage in the release cycle are likely to be very unwelcome indeed 
> :-(
> 
> However, patches for the serialisation library's current regressions 
> (http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/issues_release_.html#serialization) 
> would be most welcome.  Note also that some libraries that are unchanged in 
> this release have serialization related failures: for example date-time 
> http://tinyurl.com/3a6tl4.
> 
> If your changes are the only way to address these issues, then they *might* 
> be acceptable I guess, but otherwise I would suggest that you:
> 
> * Copy your working copy (with the changes) to a branch if it's not on a 
> branch already.
> * Concentrate on fixing regressions in Trunk.
> * Merge the branch to trunk after the release.
> 
> But like I said, I'm not the release manager, so please consider this an 
> unofficial view and contact Beman when he's back :-)

I agree 100% with everything John said.

Thanks, John!

--Beman