RE: [boost] Re: Review Wizard Status Report

From: Glen Knowles (gknowles_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-30 21:24:41

> From: David B. Held
> David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > What is the point of these IDs?  It seems like it adds busywork for 
> > reviewers and no especially useful information.  Now we're talking 
> > about making them more complicated...
> 
> Maybe they have to do with a nagging feeling that Boost 
> Libraries don't all have a canonical name, and even when it 
> seems like they do, people tend to call them whatever they 
> feel like.  Perhaps we should either go with a numerical 
> index (which the DBA in me prefers), or insist that all 
> libraries have a canonical name and that everyone use that 
> name to refer to it (perhaps to make it easier to filter 
> messages containing the name).

There is also the case of a library having multiple reviews, the
serialization library comes to mind.

Glen Knowles
Centor Software Corporation