Re: [boost] 1.37 release schedule?

Subject: Re: [boost] 1.37 release schedule?
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-09 12:18:50

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Eric Niebler <eric_at_[hidden]>wrote:
>>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>>
>>>> Something in the doc build also prevented me from doing a bjam release two
>>>> weeks ago :-( So I'll have to try and get a bjam release done ASAP, and
>>>> merged into the release. But ASAP for me right now means the weekend. So is
>>>> it OK to do this merge?
>>>>
>>> I'm not wild about this, actually. It makes me more than a little
>>> uncomfortable to think about upgrading the build system this late in the
>>> release cycle.
>>
>> I share Eric's concern.
>>
>>> Changes to critical infrastructure (like build and test) are best done at
>>> the start of the cycle.
>>
>> Exactly.
> 
> Aren't trunk tests supposed to show if build and/or test are working fine?

Testing first on trunk is an important safe-guard against instability on 
the release branch. But even with that safe-guard in place, instability 
on release *will* happen at some point -- no system is perfect. And 
stable build and test tools are so important to our ability to deliver 
releases on time that holding them to a higher standard is perfectly 
reasonable, IMO.

Let's let Rene explain the nature of the changes and assess the risk.

-- 
Eric Niebler
BoostPro Computing
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