Re: [boost] Re: review of FSM nears to the end - any more reviews?

From: Iain Hanson (Iain.Hanson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-01 07:14:14

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 02:56 +0100, Pavel Vozenilek wrote:
> "Jonathan Turkanis" wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > I think the review should be extended. If you do so,
> > I will commit to writing a
> > review, even though I don't know much about FSMs.

I am also working on a review of the library and will submit it in a
couple of days.
> >

> > I have not read the FSM reviews yet, but unfortunately IMO even if all the
> > reviews are very favorable there simply have not been enough yet to 
> > justify
> > accepting a medium sized library. It looks to me like only four people 
> > other
> > than you and Andreas have posted on FSM so far.

I agree.

> Perhaps it could be interpreted: as the library reached
> mature state where everybody's happy enough.
> 
No. I think that silence is probably better interpreted as apathy or I
don't have enough time to review something of this size and do it
justice. I would not like to see libraries adopted into boost by default
when they have not received a decent review. Just my 2p worth.

> I feel current model of reviews is not designed
> to deal with big libraries well.
> 

I very much agree.

/ikh