Re: [boost] Running the gauntlet to report bugs

From: Thomas Matelich (sosedada_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-03 13:31:03

David Abrahams wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
> To: <boost_at_[hidden]>; <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 4:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [boost] Running the gauntlet to report bugs
>
> > I agree very much with both Kevin and Dave, but I'm drowning in
> > administrative work.  Dave, why don't you set up the SourceForge bug
> > tracker, and write a prototype web page for the boost site telling users
> > what to do (or with a form to fill out
>
> Okay, I did the first part. Interested parties should take a look at
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7586 and let me know what they
> think.
> I also added a boost-bugs mailing list at sourceforge, which will get a
> broadcast email each time a new bug is added. Library maintainers are
> /strongly/ encouraged to subscribe to boost-bugs at
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-bugs so that you may hear
> about reported bugs. I'd like to get some people hooked up to this system
> before we advertise it to the world at large.

So I suppose the admins will be responsible for assigning bugs, etc. to people
and they will be in charge of posting updates and closing them.  Like any tool
for distributing responsibility, it will require buy-in from the developers
using it.

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Thomas O Matelich
Senior Software Designer
Zetec, Inc.
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