Re: [boost] [1.40.0] Freeze for release candidate

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.40.0] Freeze for release candidate
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-24 12:28:02

Jeremiah Willcock wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Beman Dawes wrote:
> 
>> As far as I can tell, all the branches/release merges we were waiting
>> for have now been completed. The plan is to go ahead with the release
>> candidate as soon as all the release branch tests have cycled for
>> revision 55757.
>>
>> Please commit no more changes to branches/release without explicit
>> permission from me.
> 
> One issue that I am concerned about is that there are no regression test 
> results for the release branch with MPI (and thus Boost.MPI and 
> Boost.Graph.Parallel) turned on.  Thus, neither of these components have 
> been tested in a couple of weeks, and they were broken last time the 
> regression tests ran for them.  I would feel more comfortable if the 
> regression tests passed for those before the release as well.  What are 
> other peoples' opinions on that?

Someone would need to step forward to run them. If someone did that Soon 
(in the next few days), I'm pretty sure we would be happy to hold the 
release for a test cycle. Do we have any volunteers?

-- 
Eric Niebler
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