Re: [boost] Running the gauntlet to report bugs

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-03 12:46:41

At 12:16 PM 4/3/2001, David Abrahams wrote:

 >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.

Looks like a good start.  Simple enough to kill if it doesn't work out.

 >Sorry, I guess I don't understand how the form mailer could be useful in
 >this context. The bug tracker is a web-based interface.

Some sites prefer to host the web-based interface entirely internally to 
the site.  But I don't see any need for Boost to do that.  Linking to the 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7586 page should work fine, 
although it might be a good idea if someone behind a firewall tried it.

 >> We can try it out just among Boost members, and then loose it on the
 >public
 >> if it seems to be effective.
 >
 >Sounds great.

I hope that Boost users will give this a serious try.  It could be a nice 
help both in tracking bugs, and reducing clutter on the main list.

--Beman