Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] Libraries failing across the board.

Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] Libraries failing across the board.
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-09 14:07:09

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Beman Dawes wrote
> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth &lt;
>
> > kbelco@
>
> > &gt; wrote:
> >
> > Marshall may well want to stop all changes to master while he puts
> > together
> > the RC, but I'm hoping he will let us know beforehand.
>
> Hmmm - Isn't that backwards?  That is shouldn't we suspend generation
> releases until the master tests all pass?
>

Doesn't scale. Trying to get all master tests to pass is what delayed 1.36
and prior releases so long. Since then we have been on a quarterly
schedule. That schedule was temporarily broken by the Git/Modularization
conversion, but now we are planning restart quarterly releases.

--Beman