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

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.40.0] Freeze for release candidate
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-24 12:33:52

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Eric Niebler wrote:

> 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?

Steve Robbins was running them (and probably still is), but the results 
were not being reported to the regression testing site.  There was a 
discussion on boost-testing about the issue: "[Boost-testing] test results 
with mpi vanish", but I do not believe that the bug in the Web site was 
ever resolved to allow the tests to appear.

-- Jeremiah Willcock