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

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.40.0] Freeze for release candidate
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-24 13:00:42

On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:28 AM, 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?

Eric -
I can run a darwin test cycle tonight, if that helps.

-- Marshall