Re: [boost] Refactoring tools/regression and tools/release into separate sub-modules

Subject: Re: [boost] Refactoring tools/regression and tools/release into separate sub-modules
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-11 09:07:43

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 11 February 2014 08:22, Ahmed Charles <acharles_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > I just worked on this, the results are:
> >
> > https://github.com/ahmedcharles/regression
> > https://github.com/ahmedcharles/release
> >
> > And the additions to the superproject are:
> >
> > https://github.com/ahmedcharles/boost
> >
> > Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Looks good, would it be possible to describe the method you used? As
> others might need to do something similar.
>
> I think the next steps are:
>
> 1. Transfer the modules into 'boostorg', I think you can do that
> through github, although you might have to be added to a team if you
> don't have any write permissions in the organisation.
> 2. Change the regression testers to use the regression module. We need
> to do that before updating the super project as they download directly
> from it.
> 3. Once they're successfully using it, merge the super project.
>
> Does that sound right?
>
> I don't think the release module even needs to be a submodule, as
> nothing depends on it. Ideally the regression tests also shouldn't be,
> but I suspect some of the infrastructure relies on it.
>

This is very helpful! Thank you both for working on it!

I'm at the C++ committee meeting and totally distracted, but I can't think
of any reason not to make the change as soon as Daniel feels comfortable.
Please do be sure the regression testers know what to do and watch the
regression tests after the change to make sure all is well.

--Beman