Re: [boost] [1.40.0] OK to build release?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.40.0] OK to build release?
From: Daniel James (daniel_james_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-13 02:37:00

2009/5/12 Vladimir Prus <vladimir_at_[hidden]>:
>
> Maybe, Trac query for issues with milestone of <next release> and severity
> of "Showstopper". I've just looked for 1.39 issues -- there's 155 open ones,
> presumably because sumbitters tend to set some value for "Milestone". Of them,
> 9 are marked as showstoppers -- presumably by submitters to. So, it's
> safe to assume that only a minority of issues submitted by users will have
> severity of "Showstopper" and therefore it's a good way to indicate that
> an issue should be considered by release team.

We should probably consider all open showstopper tickets. Even if all
we do is demote them. There's about 40 or 50 at the moment. Although a
lot of them are pretty old, so it's unlikely that they're genuine
showstoppers.

Daniel