Re: [boost] GIL Review

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-26 09:22:08

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
|  [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Martin Wille
|  Sent: 26 October 2006 12:23
|  To: boost_at_[hidden]
|  Subject: Re: [boost] GIL Review
|  
|  Joel de Guzman wrote:
|  
|  > I move to remove private reviews from the review process.
|  
|  I agree that the review text should become public.
|  
|  A reason for not submitting a review to the list would be that the 
|  reviewer is not subscribed on it and doesn't intend to 
|  subscribe (e.g. 
|  an expert on the particular field covered by the library 
|  under review 
|  but without much interest for Boost in general).
|  
|  So instead of eliminating the opportunity to submit reviews 
|  directly to 
|  the review manager, I'd like to see adding of "who will then 
|  forward the 
|  review text to the mailing list" after "Privately to the 
|  Review Manager".

I agree strongly with this - the expertise of the Boost group is thin in some fields, especially applications  - like Math functions
and statistics ;-)

It would be foolish to do anything to make getting comment from experts difficult.

Joinging the group is not totally hassle free.

But I also strongly agree that the text of their reviews must be made public.

(And their name, but not necessarily their email address which may thereby be exposed to spam).

Paul