Re: [boost] [1.50.0] RELEASE BRANCH REOPENED

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.50.0] RELEASE BRANCH REOPENED
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-23 07:56:49

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:54 PM, lcaminiti <lorcaminiti_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Olaf van der Spek-3 wrote
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:25 AM, lcaminiti &lt;lorcaminiti@&gt; wrote:
>>> It would be for ScopeExit, LocalFunction, OverloadedFunction, and
>>> IdentityType because these libraries have been ready for a while
>>> (regression
>>> tested on all compilers, reviewed by managers and other library authors,
>>> etc). I didn't merge them into release simply because I was think I still
>>> had time and I had been busy at work in the last 2 weeks (I and Vicente
>>> asked for a 1.50 release date a few times more than 3 weeks ago but got
>>> no
>>> answer, not the release was closed the same day it was announced). I put
>>> a
>>> lot of effort into getting these libraries ready, they are ready, not to
>>> include them in 1.50 because of a miss-communication invalidates a large
>>> part of the effort I put into developing and testing this libraries...
>>
>> Isn't that exaggerated? They could go into 1.51.
>>
>
> My point is that a truly put a lot of effort to meet the 1.50 target and
> that is slipping away for miss-communication, which is rather unfortunate.

Yes, the communication is bad. But the target for major merges is the
begin of the release cycle, not the end.

-- 
Olaf