Re: [boost] Transfer of Maintenance Rights

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