Re: [boost] 1.56 release

Subject: Re: [boost] 1.56 release
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-21 08:23:05

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Klaim - Joël Lamotte <mjklaim_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Are we going to do this? Since we haven't got the new branching structure
>> in place, I could stop automatically updating the master branch of the
>> super project on Monday, or perhaps on April 7th.
>>
>
> If the idea is to follow gitflow, then starting a release branch to prepare
> the release would be the way to go.
> It would mean that the update is never stopped, the release fixes/changes
> would get into the release branch and once the release is published,
> these changes would get merged back to master.
> That being said, it's the gitflow way but it don't mean that it works for
> boost: I don't see clearly how this could work with the super project setup.
> Maybe asking for libraries which want to release something to do this and
> then have the super repo release branch use the release branch of each
> subrepo would work
> but it seem complicated (but automatable like for the master udpate).
>

If we created a separate branch for the release, the regression tests
would never get run against it, since they are hard-coded to master.