Re: [boost] [1.50.0] RELEASE BRANCH REOPENED

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.50.0] RELEASE BRANCH REOPENED
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-23 15:38:56

On 5/23/2012 5:11 AM, Daniel James wrote:
> On 23 May 2012 12:56, Olaf van der Spek <ml_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:54 PM, lcaminiti <lorcaminiti_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> To be fair to Lorenzo, he requested that we (the release managers)
> look at his libraries some time ago, and I don't think he was warned
> that they needed to be merged. I haven't checked up on them since, but
> IIRC some of the libraries were ready, some needed a little more work
> (and I think he understood what needed to be done). I possibly should
> have instructed him to merge things that are ready sooner rather than
> later, although I thought that went without saying.
> 
> I'll take another look at his changes later (or maybe someone else
> will?), and consult the other release managers (this isn't really my
> thing).

I'm not familiar with the state of these libraries, but I'm sympathetic
to Lorenzo. Assuming everything looks ok, this release manager would be
ok with allowing Lorenzo's new stuff into 1.49.

-- 
Eric Niebler
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