Re: [boost] Release notes piling up

On 5 July 2018 at 04:08, Stefan Seefeld via Boost wrote:

On 07/04/18 18:42, Mateusz Loskot via Boost wrote:

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On 4 July 2018 at 19:14, James E. King III via Boost wrote:

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There are 12 PRs for updating the documentation (they are going to have merge conflicts)... who is managing that for this release cycle?

https://github.com/boostorg/website/pulls Handling conflicts and merging is a simple task. I think, it's more of an issue there are no reviews from reviewers with write access that would confirm acceptance of the PRs and can "count towards mergeability".

What "reviews" do we expect for release notes ?

James' post starts with "There are 12 PRs for updating the documentation" That is all the open PRs currently, and I noticed at least one which is not a release notes PR.

Don't we trust that library authors know best what release notes they want to submit ?

I'm sure we do.

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But, for instance this one, even if it seems to be based on extensive discussion on the list, still not clear if it is generally approved or not https://github.com/boostorg/website/pull/300 Should there be voting or at least PSC action taken?

That one isn't a release note, so I wouldn't even count in this context.

Yes, and above I explained why I refered to it.

(In my dream world, release notes would be collected per library, and the Boost website would only aggregate or syndicate them, so we wouldn't even have to have this discussion...)

It was actually surprising to find out that's not the case. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net