Re: [boost] "boost cold shoulder" (was proposal for #pragma once support)

Subject: Re: [boost] "boost cold shoulder" (was proposal for #pragma once support)
From: John Phillips (phillips_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-09 18:14:45

Pete Bartlett wrote:
>> I brought this topic up a couple of months ago, and I got the "Boost
>> Cold Shoulder".
>>
>> You see, I believe the head-honchos here are GCC aficionados and don't
>> care much about Bill Gate's compilers.
>>
>> I hope you do better than I did.
>>
>> -Sid Sacek
> 
> I'm not any sort of honcho here so I hope you don't mind if I disagree.
> 

   I'm going to disagree, as well. I just went back into the archives 
and looked at your thread, and I'm confused by your perception of a cold 
shoulder. I count 26 posts in the thread over less than 4 days, in a 
discussion that includes some library maintainers and one of the 
moderators. This a reasonably active discussion for around here.

   I agree that no one showed up and said "You have permission, go ahead 
and do it." However, as Pete points out, that just isn't the way Boost 
works. All broad action in Boost happens by first building a wide 
consensus in the community. If you notice, when moderators such as Dave 
  or Beman have ideas for changes, they follow the same process of 
discussion on the list and building consensus. On some occasions they 
don't generate enough interest or agreement and their ideas go by the 
wayside. It isn't always quick, but it is the way Boost works.

   More broadly, please continue contributing. Not every idea you have 
will be what the community does, but getting your ideas in the mix is 
central to how we function. (For the record, some of my ideas have gone 
down in flames, or just produced no broad interest, so I know where of I 
speak.)

                        John