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Subject: Re: [boost] Transfer of Maintenance Rights
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-25 11:52:02
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Stewart, Robert wrote:
> Jeremiah Willcock wrote:
>>> Rob Stewart wrote:
>>
>> I agree with some sort of deadline, but what if a maintainer
>> fixes some
>> bugs but not all of them? Also, does this only apply to
>> actual bugs, or
>> feature requests? There are also some bugs in BGL that apply to
>> interfaces (such as the one to LEDA) that are no longer
>> maintained. Does
>> the maintainer have discretion on what bugs to consider
>> important (if they
>> do reply and say something is a low priority)?
>
> See if my recent reply to Vicente addresses your concern.
It does somewhat -- there are BGL bugs that are kept open (because they
are legitimate problems) that have too low of a priority to work on
actively. If a user submits a patch for them and can test it they will be
fixed. On the later things in your reply to me, I do like the new
rewrite.
-- Jeremiah Willcock
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