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Subject: Re: [boost] [date_time] Who is in charge?
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-19 04:57:49


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> one person is plenty if he keeps the work up to date.

That's a big if. And that one person certainly won't maintain the lib forever.

>>> I think a lot of people would be willing to help out.
>
> I think lots of people would be happy to apply their own patches.
> But they solve their own problems and don't think of
> the situation as a whole.

It's not about giving commit access to the world.

>> I think this is a great idea. We need to make it easier for user
>> patches to be applied.
>
> maybe the best in this case would be to get date.time accepted
> into the standard - then we can just let the vendors deal with
> it.

It's not (just) about date time.

-- 
Olaf

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