On Nov 8, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 8, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
Are there any 1.48.0 showstoppers outstanding? We are scheduled to release right now.
Well, there are 72 open tickets in Trac marked as "showstopper". :-
From the standpoint of shipping a release, at the end of a release cycle, about the only thing I consider a showstopper is something that makes most of Boost unusable, particularly for a popular platform. I also get concerned when a library, particularly a popular one, has a lot of failures.
IFAIK, none of those tickets come anywhere close to that level of concern. I'm guessing most were classified as "showstopper" because they were important to the submitter.
You'll get no argument from me on that score. However, I think we ought to go through those bugs and decide which, if any, actually are "showstoppers" [ Before the next (1.49) release, I mean ] In https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/TicketWorkflow, we have (in fact, I think I wrote): Severity - how bad is this ticket? Showstopper - this problem is so bad, that we should hold up a release if it's not fixed. Note that the release managers and/or the library maintainers may have different opinions. Regression - something used to work (in a previous release), but no longer does. Problem - the default value. Optimization - this makes the library work better (usually with a patch enclosed). Cosmetic - minor problems, like using the wrong "they're/there/their" in a comment, or a typo in the documentation. Do not be discouraged from creating tickets for "minor" issues like this. They're easy to fix, and they make boost better. Then again, I think that the status of the bug list, and getting things fixed, needs some serious work anyway. (given that we currently have almost 1250 open tickets) -- Marshall