Re: 1.35 release approach (was [1.34.0] Deadline)
Jeff Garland <jeff <at> crystalclearsoftware.com>
2007-05-01 01:05:42 GMT
Thomas Witt wrote:
> In article <624789.81580.qm <at> web53912.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Cromwell Enage
> <sponage <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> A few somewhat-recently accepted libraries (e.g. ASIO,
>> Fusion, Interprocess, MPI, PropertyTree) are available
>> in both the beta distribution and via CVS but are not
>> advertised in either libs/libraries.htm or
>> doc/html/index.html; will their presence at least be
>> announced in the news section of the home page during
>> the official release?
>
> As of now there is no such plan. They are not part of the official release
> and as such are not mentioned in the docs.
>
To clarify, none of the listed libraries are in the beta distribution I have.
And property tree isn't in CVS yet AFAICS.
Most of these libraries should be in 1.35, which will hopefully be released
'quickly'. By quickly, I mean ~1.5 months...which means a beta release 1
month after 1.34. Yep, that's right, I think we need to set some very hard
goals to re-energize the boost release process. After the '1.34 experience'
I've become even more of an advocate a hard line release approach. That is, we
should set the deadline and only accept code that can make it in the release
timeframe -- if it's not ready then we take it out and let it slide to the
next release.
To minimize risk of delay and release the pent-up backlog of new libraries I
believe we should hold all existing 1.34 libs constant and only add in new
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