Re: [boost] [Bug Sprint] Policy on MIA maintainers

Subject: Re: [boost] [Bug Sprint] Policy on MIA maintainers
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-18 14:07:36

At Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:39:34 -0600,
Jim Bell wrote:
> 
> How about this question: as of this moment, we have X number of patches
> already in Trac. What's the average quality of those patches? (If a
> library has diverged from a patch, don't count it, as that's not fair to
> the patch.)
> 
> See where I'm going? If 97% of existing patches would be accepted, how
> much apprehension should you have about the next one? (Or if only 40%...)
> 
> Or, if a Boost-trusted developer not intimately familiar with the
> library can, in two minutes (or ten? twenty?) determine that the patch
> is valid, with 97% accuracy, what would that mean?
> 
> And if the patch had to do directly with a regression failure, how would
> that change things?

Many of the patches I've seen come in seem to be perfectly good code
but lack docs and tests.  How should we classify those?

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