Re: [boost] [1.61.0] Master branch is closed

On 4/22/16 8:31 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Robert Ramey wrote:

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On 4/20/16 12:17 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

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Boosters,

The master branch is now closed for all changes, except by permission from a release manager. Per schedule, the branch will be totally frozen on Saturday.

Yesterday I was informed by a beta tester for version 1.61 of a regression in the master branch of the serialization library. This was not detected by any of my tests (as far as I know. The test matrix shows some failures, but doesn't reveal their cause). In any case it's a very serious issue. If this is released, xml archives created with this version may not be readable in the future.

I made a fix, tested it on the compilers I have at my disposal and pushed the changes to the develop branch. I did this yesterday in the hope of getting results on the develop branch test matrix so I could merge (after getting permission) today. But it seems that since I did the upload yesterday, no tests have been run on the develop branch. So I'm stuck. I could merge this directly to master - and I'm willing to do this if asked, but I would prefer to stick with my original plan.

I apologize for creating this problem. It's exactly the kind of thing that I give other people a hard time for.

I absolutely need to get this into the master before release.

Which commit is it?

it is the very latest one on the develop branch = 3eb2bda

If it's small enough we likely would say yes..

It's basically a change in one function. It is the only change.

And we are planning on testing final archives on Sunday. So you at least have through Saturday end of day (US day that is) to wait and see if some master test results run.

I'm willing to do whatever is most convenient for you guys. Ideally I'd like to see at least a few test results on develop, merge to master and see at least a few results there. Robert Ramey