on Wed Oct 31 2007, Beman Dawes <bdawes-AT-acm.org> wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=severity&milestone=Boost+1.35.0&order=priority shows all the tickets that have been assigned to the 1.35.0 milestone. Does this list have any meaning? In other words, are we actually intending to address all of these problems for 1.35, and put off other tickets for 1.35.1 or 1.36.0?
IMO getting this list sorted out and handling the tickets one-by-one is the most productive way to get us from here to a successful release of 1.35.0. That may mean a number of new tickets need to be added (probably at least one for each major failure we're seeing in http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/1_34_1/developer/issues.ht... and possibly others) and it will require part of the release team to triage the whole list of tickets assigned to 1.35.0 and make some decisions to put certain tickets off for later.
My original plan was to triage all outstanding trac tickets to identify those that really are important for 1.35.0, and then start pestering the owners.
But so far I've spent all my time on test issues and failures.
If you want to start triaging tickets and pestering people, feel free to go ahead and start that effort.
No, that wasn't my point. My point was that we should focus on making http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=severity&milestone=Boost+1.35.0&order=priority (the list of tickets assigned to the 1.35.0 milestone) a meaningful report for this release. That means establishing a 1.36.0 milestone, declaring the criteria for including a ticket in 1.35.0, telling people that if they want an exception they have to get you to okay it, and maybe making any assignments of tickets to 1.35.0 and 1.36.0 that are obvious. Then we all have a list of issues to focus on killing off and we don't need to pester people as much. If you would like me to take on some of these tasks, please ask me. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com