Re: [boost] [1.65.0] Point release?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.65.0] Point release?
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-08-26 18:16:51

On 26 August 2017 at 18:02, Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Daniel James wrote:
>
>> We could use a more complicated branching scheme to merge the changes back
>> into the main branches.
>
>
> My old suggestion was (still is) that we could use a dedicated 'release'
> superproject branch for the releases, avoiding the need to freeze master.

I was talking about the submodule branches. Branching the super
project wouldn't gain much nowadays, as little is done directly in it.

> But we don't rely that much on the testers nowadays, so this would be less
> of an issue.

I do. The turnaround on Travis is pretty terrible at the moment, and
that's going to get worse as more modules use it.