Re: [boost] 1.46 closing for new libraries tomorrow

Subject: Re: [boost] 1.46 closing for new libraries tomorrow
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-20 00:20:55

Marshall Clow wrote:

> On Dec 19, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
> 
>> On 12/19/2010 2:44 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>> 
>>> Our calendar at
>>> 
>>> http://www.boost.org/development/index.html
>>> 
>>> say that 1.46 will be closed for new libraries tomorrow. I believe we
>>> have two libraries that were accepted, but not released. On those,
>>> Interval Containers library appears to have been merged to release
>>> branch already. The other one, Ratio, does not appear to be present
>>> in trunk, and therefore is not likely to be included in 1.46.
>>> 
>>> The next deadline is on Jan 10, when the trunk will be closed for major
>>> changes.
>> 
>> Boost 1.45 was release on November 19 and one month later the next release is closed to new
>> libraries. Is this the normal Boost policy regarding releases ?
> 
> Yes, it is.
> IIRC, new libraries cannot be added to the release branch in the six weeks before a release.
> 
>> I ask that only because it seems it leaves little time between the one release and the next ( one
>> month ) for new libraries to get into the next release. I do realize that Boost is on a quarterly
>> release cycle, and do appreciate that fact, but that each release has only a month ( or 1/3 of
>> the 3 months allotted time frame), to bring in new libraries from the previous release does seem
>> a bit limiting.
> 
> New (accepted) libraries may be added to the trunk immediately - irrespective of where we are in
> the release cycle. In fact, they should be added to the trunk ASAP upon acceptance; this means
> that the test systems can start running tests.
> 
> BTW - 1.45.0 was released late; usually there are six weeks, not one month between releases where
> new libraries can be merged to the release branch.
> 
> I can't speak for the release managers, but I believe that the goal here is to stabilize the
> release branch as early as possible, so that when 1-Feb comes there are no stability concerns.
> 
> I believe that these are the milestones:
> T-6 weeks - release branch closed for new libraries
> T-3 weeks - release branch closed for major code changes
> T-2 weeks - release branch closed for all changes.

The milestones are documented at

        https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ReleaseSchedule

> but I could be wrong. The calendar on the web site is definitive.

And the calendar is updated using the above page as reference.

- Volodya