Re: [boost] [modular-boost] Questions about development procedures and more

Subject: Re: [boost] [modular-boost] Questions about development procedures and more
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-03 17:16:42

On 3 February 2014 00:51, Gennadiy Rozental <rogeeff_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Daniel James <dnljms <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> > 3. What the status of testing of the new tree? How is it setup?
>> > Where can I read it? Specifically I am interested in what being
>> > tested against what.
>
>> It's pretty much as it was before. But with 'develop' and 'master'
>> instead of 'trunk' and 'branches/release'.
>
> a) Is the document explaining our testing setup?

http://www.boost.org/development/testing.html
http://www.boost.org/development/running_regression_tests.html

> b) What development branch testing tests?
>
> I think this is the major question. In my opinion we should test development
> branch of each library against master branch of all other libs. Is this the
> case now?

No. It's the same as it was before. It's not because no one can
conceive of something better, it's because we don't have the resources
to do something better.

> c) Is the plan for custom/"on demand" testing?
>
> So that one can request testing of develop branch against develop branch of
> other libs or some feature/hotfix branch against master branch of other libs?

Not really. It has been mentioned before, but as far as I know no one
is working on it.