Re: [release] Boost 1.72.0 Release Candidate 1

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-12-05 17:15:24

On 2019-12-05 20:02, Marshall Clow wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 9:01 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost 
> <boost_at_[hidden] <mailto:boost_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2019-12-05 19:48, Marshall Clow wrote:
>      > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 8:23 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost
>      > <boost_at_[hidden] <mailto:boost_at_[hidden]>
>     <mailto:boost_at_[hidden] <mailto:boost_at_[hidden]>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >Â  Â  Â Not a suggestion for 1.72, but we could probably simplify
>     pre-releases
>      >Â  Â  Â naming to just RCn without betas. I.e. we'd have 4-5 RCs
>     instead of RC
>      >Â  Â  Â betas and RCs.
>      >
>      >
>      > The reason that we have betas is that some external folks (like
>     linux
>      > distros) trigger on that.
>      > They ignore boost until they see a beta release, then they start
>     testing
>      > against that; knowing that a release is imminent.
> 
>     I assume, they trigger on RCs too, right?
> 
> Not that I've seen; no.

Hmm, that seems strange.