Re: [boost] Respecting a projects toolchain decisions

Subject: Re: [boost] Respecting a projects toolchain decisions
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-28 08:37:04

Dean Michael Berris wrote:

> Also, just like in real life, earning someone else's trust is hard
> enough, making it harder doesn't encourage more people to try and earn
> others' trust. In the current scheme of things, to gain the other
> maintainers and release managers trust, you're going to have to make
> it into the club by submitting a full-blown library that gets reviewed
> and accepted -- there's no second-tier or level of contributors who
> just want to help out by submitting patches and earn trust that way.

Why do you think so? In past, a full commit access to program_options
was given to a person who is not a maintainer of any other library.

- Volodya