Aleksey Gurtovoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Beman Dawes wrote: >> At 07:37 AM 8/11/2003, David Abrahams wrote: >> >Aleksey Gurtovoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> >> Beman Dawes wrote: >> >>> Assuming I'm release manager for 1.31.0, I'm going to publish > explicit >> >>> release criteria for key platform/compiler pairs. Basically, the >> >>> criteria will be 100% accounting for all failures on those >> >>> platform/compiler pairs. >> >> >> >> While I totally support the failures markup goal, I would like to see >> >> _the_ release criteria to include "no regressions from the previous >> >> release" item as well, preferrably for all non-beta compilers that are >> >> currently under regression testing. Especially since now we have tools >> >> to ensure it. >> > >> >I worry a little about requiring library authors not to regress on >> >compiler combinations they don't test with. For example, who is going >> >to address the one lexical_cast failure that's plaguing the 1.30.2 >> >release? It's only on intel-7.1 with STLPort and looks for all the >> >world like a config problem. >> >> It can be very time consuming to track down the exact reason for failures. >> Thus we should focus our 1.31.0 effort on a small number of widely used >> compilers which don't have a lot of problems. > > It doesn't have to be the release manager who investigates all the issues > himself, though. There might be enough of the interested parties with > motivation/resources to resolve most of these in a reasonable time frame > if they a given a chance/"managed" properly.
I am especially concerned about the toll it takes on a release manager to "give them a chance/manage them". Managing a release, as I've recently discovered, is not a piece of cake. It will suck up at least a couple of days of someone's time. Asking the release manager to (attempt to) track someone down to handle each failure on such a wide variety of platforms/compilers may not be reasonable. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
