Re: [boost] [1.48.0] Status?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.48.0] Status?
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-08 10:35:06

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Nov 8, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
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>> Are there any 1.48.0 showstoppers outstanding? We are scheduled to
>> release right now.
>
> Well, there are 72 open tickets in Trac marked as "showstopper". :-

>From the standpoint of shipping a release, at the end of a release
cycle, about the only thing I consider a showstopper is something that
makes most of Boost unusable, particularly for a popular platform. I
also get concerned when a library, particularly a popular one, has a
lot of failures.

IFAIK, none of those tickets come anywhere close to that level of
concern. I'm guessing most were classified as "showstopper" because
they were important to the submitter.

--Beman