[boost] [1.35.0] Volunteer[s] wanted: Building release snapshots

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-01 09:23:59

In the past, the release manager has waited until a release is almost 
ready, and then started building and posting release candidates. Getting 
set up to generate the release candidates takes longer than expected. 
The release candidates themselves turn out to be missing files or have 
other problems that take longer than expected to resolve.

I propose we start building daily release snapshots, regardless of where 
we are in a release cycle. I'm calling these "snapshots" rather than 
"candidates", since they are really only release candidates late in the 
release cycle.

Building snapshots on a daily basis would have these benefits:

* The mechanical procedure would become smooth, and so could eliminate 
one of the delays that plague the current release process.

* The snapshots could be inspected, tested, and otherwise checked for 
quality control on an ongoing basis. Since release tarball problems 
could be detected and fixed earlier in the release cycle, this could 
reduced or eliminated a source of delays.

* The release workload could better distributed, since generation of 
snapshots could be handled by someone other than the release manager.

Comments?

Would anyone like to volunteer to take this on? They would need a high 
speed internet connection as the files involved are quite large.

--Beman