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Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.GSL?
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-24 19:16:51


On 25.09.2015 01:59, Beman Dawes wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>>
>> The second part is the guidelines (i.e. the document with the coding
>> rules). I think Boost is not the right place for it, and neither isocpp is.
>> This is a too controversial document, whoever is writing it, so it should
>> probably be in a book or something that clearly states that this is the
>> author's personal opinion.
>>
>
> One person isn't writing it. It is an MIT licensed open source project,
> based on work that goes back at least to Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu's
> 2004 C++ Coding Standards book. The project's initial editors are Bjarne
> Strustrup and Herb Sutter, although they are looking for additional
> editors, contributors, and proof readers. Pull requests are accepted.

Ok, so it's a collective authorship. But that still doesn't make isocpp
the right place for it.


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