RE: [patch] Boost.Signals + diatribe (Re: [signals] Re: [boost] t ake-2 [patch] usage of asserts with pointers in boost)

From: Bjorn.Karlsson_at_[hidden]
Date: 2002-08-07 09:13:50

> From: larsbj_at_[hidden] [mailto:larsbj_at_[hidden]]
> 
> Ok... set up a list of approved subject tokens that will trigger boost
> maintainers and devlopers into activity then...

Less irony? A collegial tone? Suggestions (with arguments) to go with the
patches? 

> | That would be me, although the title is probably in the eye 
> of the beholder
> | :-). However, applying patches or otherwise meddling with 
> libraries that are
> | already maintained is not only rude, it's also a great 
> maintenance risk, and
> | exactly the opposite of how we do things at Boost. Good or 
> bad? Well, the
> | track record so far seems to indicate the former. 
> 
> To have this is a general rule is pretty cumbersome...
> 
> this is assert thing is one that shouldn't need to involve
> lib-mainainters, as would other _simple_ stuff for removal of
> warnings.
> 

And indeed, that might not be necessary. Still, we will discuss it on the
list before it happens. If there is consensus that such a change should be
applied, then I agree; that should not have to involve the maintainers.

Bjorn