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

On 11/12/20 8:00 PM, Marshall Clow wrote:

On Nov 12, 2020, at 8:50 AM, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:

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On 11/12/20 7:30 PM, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:

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On 11/11/20 11:02 PM, Marshall Clow via Boost wrote:

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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?