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From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-18 09:33:41


At 11:19 PM 7/17/2003, Daryle Walker wrote:
>On our mailing list page, we mention:
>
>> For this list's members only, preliminary libraries under discussion
>> are available from the YahooGroups Files section (formerly called the
>> "vault").
>
>This was OK when the main Boost mailing list was on YahooGroups (which
>absorbed the original home of eGroups). However,
>
>1. The mailing list moved to a different server.
>2. Read-access to the "vault" was opened to all. (good thing)
>3. Write-access is only available to those who signed up back when we
>used YahooGroups? (confusing thing)
>4. We've talked about copying currently-reviewed material to our
>SourceForge web space. Should that be official? It may not be
>necessary because the current "vault" is world-readable. And in both
>spaces (I think), some people may need to ask another Booster with
>access to do the uploading for them.
>
>I think we need to clear up some things, and post the new policies to
>the web site.

Agreed. How about an additional directory that would resolve to
boost.sourceforge.net/review?

I'm swamped. Could someone else create the directory, upload the fixed
decimal library, and update the pertinent boost web pages in CVS?

--Beman


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