Re: [boost] Is merging to the release branch allowed again?

Subject: Re: [boost] Is merging to the release branch allowed again?
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-01 04:32:31

On 1 December 2010 05:25, Henrik Sundberg <storangen_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Eric Niebler <eric_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 11/30/2010 2:23 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
>>> Yep, OK to merge to release.
>>
>> I guess you've now (indirectly) answered in the negative my question
>> about a point release to address the type_traits vc-7.1 regression.
>> That's too bad.
>
> Shouldn't point releases be originating from the actual release anyway?

Our regression testing system currently only supports two fixed
branches (trunk and release), so to test a point release we need to
keep the release branch dedicated to it.

Daniel