Re: [boost] [Release Managers] Merging Parameter to Release

Subject: Re: [boost] [Release Managers] Merging Parameter to Release
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-30 13:43:51

David Abrahams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/issues_release_.html#parameter
> now shows that the changes we made are clean.  The failures you're
> seeing there are due to tests we added newly; those tests are from
> "literate programming" examples that were automatically extracted from
> the documentation, and for some reason we had never checked them in so
> far.
> 
> How would you like this handled?  I suppose one option is that we could
> avoid merging the new tests.

I'm confused. Are the tests clean or are they failing? You seem to be 
saying that your changes haven't introduced new regressions, but that 
you've added additional tests that are failing for other reasons, is 
that right? What are the nature of the recent changes? Bug fixes? If so, 
I'm inclined to accept the bug fixes and reject the additional tests to 
avoid the appearance of a regression. Beman?

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Eric Niebler
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