Re: [boost] Process discussions

Subject: Re: [boost] Process discussions
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-02 02:22:56

Rene Rivera wrote:
> On 2/1/2011 7:21 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>> At Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:12:45 -0600,
>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>>
>>> That is, I don't think we can live without full trunk testing.
>>
>> I'm curious why not.  I'm fairly sure I don't want any resources
>> wasted on it for my libraries.
>
> Because in the three testing scenarios I mentioned it would be the
> only one to give you fully integrated testing without being in the
> release. Of course a full dependency integrated testing of an
> individual lib with a release base could be a substitute for full
> trunk testing. But for some components full dependency integrated
> testing might devolve back to close to full trunk testing. But again,
> this all depends on how close or far future procedures are to the
> current ones.

I would think that the decision to test any dependent libraries
could be left to the tester.  He could decide to do it if he
had the resources - otherwise just test the library recently
merged.

Robert Ramey