Re: [boost] Getting Started with Modular Boost Library Maintenance

26 Dec 2013


      On 26 December 2013 12:41, Cox, Michael  wrote:
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On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Daniel James wrote:
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It just updates submodules to the latest version.
On what branch in the superproject to what branch in the submodules?
 develop -> master I hope?
No, until a decision is made otherwise, I'm just following what the
conversion established.
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Merging will never
really work on the super project as they're updated independently. The
Why is the superproject's master branch being updated?  That should occur
only when the release managers are ready to release boost by merging the
superproject's develop branch into master.
We haven't settled on how the superproject will be released, it might
not work that way. One possible alternative is creating a release
branch from master. For now, master acts as release did in subversion.
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only thing that the current develop branch is good for is making up
for the shortcomings in our testing setup. This is one of the reasons
why Peter Dimov suggested changing the branches in his proposal, and I
This proposal http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/247192 or
has it changed?
No, it hasn't.