[boost] [1.35.0] Progress report

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-24 10:32:46

In another thread, John Maddock wrote:

> Where are we with the release process?

Our build and test infrastructure finally seems stable, and able to 
support the 1.35.0 release. Tests don't look too awful on our 
high-priority release targets (and I've just updated the list of 
high-priority targets so that the Unresolved Issues report reflects 
those priorities.) The inspection report is still shows an uncomfortably 
large number of problems, and I'm about to turn on more of the checks. 
Merging of libraries into branches/release is finally underway. Quite a 
bit of work has been done on the website. There are still lots of 
outstanding tickets. No attempt has been made yet to try to put the 
pieces together to shakedown the build release candidate process.

I realize that from the perspective of not shipping a release until all 
but the most trivial issue are resolved, the above report seems overly 
optimistic. But I'm assuming we are committed to getting a release out 
sometime in December, and that it is better to get releases out 
regularly than holding releases until they are perfect.

 > Do we have some kind of schedule / deadlines for being ready to ship...

* Merge for release complete: Sunday, November 25th.
* Start testing release candidate build process: Monday, December 3rd.
* Release Candidate 1: Monday, December 10th.

That implies clearing most of the remaining high-priority platform test 
failures in the next two weeks.

--Beman