Re: [release] Boost 1.75.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 2

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-11-12 17:08:08

On 11/12/20 8:00 PM, Marshall Clow wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2020, at 8:50 AM, Andrey Semashev via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/12/20 7:30 PM, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:
>>> On 11/11/20 11:02 PM, Marshall Clow via Boost wrote:
>>>> The second release candidates for the 1.75.0 beta release are now available
>>>> at:
>>>>
>>>> <https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/1.75.0.beta1/source/>
>>>>
>>> When will be permitted to merge develop into release.  I thought there would be an opportunity between RC1 and RC2.
>>
>> The master branch will be open after the beta is released. The release candidates were for the beta, so it has not yet been released.
>>
>> Yes, RC of a beta is confusing and I wish we just used a single nomenclature for pre-releases - either betas or RCs.
> 
> The beta releases cause activity outside the boost community.
> We want to minimize the number of beta releases (ideally, one per boost release).

Why try minimizing it? And why it is Boost to decide which pre-releases 
to consume downstream?