Re: [boost] Which forum to handle issues/questions regarding libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] Which forum to handle issues/questions regarding libraries
From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-03-25 18:17:19

On 25/03/2019 14:47, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:
> I've been studying the boost multiprecision library and I have a few 
> questions relating to various aspects of said library.  These 
> questions are quite specific to that library and I'm not sure that 
> they are of wider interest other than to a couple people. So I'm 
> wondering if it would be better to post these as library issues on 
> github or on this list or both.
>
> It used to be simple but now we have at least three places to discuss 
> these things: slack, here and github issues for the library in 
> question. Â Also sometimes some PRs can highlight differences which can 
> get ironed out in the PR comments.  Do we have a consensus as to the 
> preferred way to select the correct forum?

If it's a bug then I'd say that github is pretty much always the best 
place, if there are wider design issues or inter-library issues, then 
here would be good.

John.

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