Re: [boost] A Remedy for the Review Manager Starvation

Subject: Re: [boost] A Remedy for the Review Manager Starvation
From: Emil Dotchevski (emil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-15 15:20:33

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Paul A. Bristow
<pbristow_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Joachim Faulhaber
>> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 5:49 AM
>> To: boost_at_[hidden]
>> Subject: [boost] A Remedy for the Review Manager Starvation
>>
>> So this is my suggestion:
>> (1) Let's increase the standards: Let's make it more difficult for a library to be accepted into boost.
>
> Strong disagreement - we need to make it *easier* to meet Boost Quality (and yet improve quality too).
>
> The main improvement should come from more eyes viewing the code - isn't that the strength of Open Source?
>
> To achieve this we need a way to get more 'candidate code' in real-life use by more people for a much longer period of
> time.

+1 in principle, there is no substitute for feedback from actual use
of a library, but IMO this contradicts with your disagreement:
requiring 'candidate code' to be used in real life by more people
would make it harder for library developers, not easier.

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode