Re: [Boost-maint] Community Maintenance Team and neglected libraries

Subject: Re: [Boost-maint] Community Maintenance Team and neglected libraries
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-04-22 14:10:08

On Wednesday 23 April 2014 00:29:17 Ben Pope wrote:
> In case you haven't heard of the CMT:
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance
> 
> I'm also interested in getting the test results less yellow and more
> green, I don't have a lot of time, I'm sure I'm not alone.
> 
> There are quite a few places where the library code is probably fine,
> but the failure is in the test itself, the fix is often simple and
> uncontroversial.
> 
> These easy fixes should just happen; make a pull request, ticket with
> patch, whatever; commit goes in; reminder when tests have cycled; merged
> to master; profit.

This is a recurring topic and unfortunately the problem still stands. CMT was 
a step forward, but to my mind this is not enough. With SVN we had commit 
rights everywhere, and such simple fixes went in much easier. After 
modularization some libraries were left effectively unmaintained and 
inaccessible. CMT does have rights to push to some libraries but not all and 
therefore does not fix the problem completely.

To my mind CMT should have access to all libraries, maintained or not. If a 
given library is actively maintained then CMT doesn't need to intervene. 
However, if the maintainer goes silent for considerable time, CMT has the 
ability to apply such fixes.