Re: [boost] Respecting a projects toolchain decisions (was Re: [context] new version - support for Win64)

Subject: Re: [boost] Respecting a projects toolchain decisions (was Re: [context] new version - support for Win64)
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-29 16:30:06

At Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:58:52 -0500,
Stewart, Robert wrote:
> 
> Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Dave Abrahams
> > <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > > At Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:56:19 +0800,
> > > Dean Michael Berris wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Actually, I'd +2 if you said a review should be open until the
> > >> library gets into the main distribution. And even after that,
> > >> reviewing the quality of the library should be on-going and
> > >> shouldn't stop at the point of inclusion into Boost. ;)
> > >
> > > _That_ is a really cool idea.
> >
> > I liked too. How many times I wanted to review a library, but didn't
> > find any time in the two or three weeks they were being reviewed.
> > Sometimes these libraries are in the review queue for much longer
> > than that, and a review could've been possible before or even after.
> 
> There's nothing stopping you from submitting reviews for any of the
> pending libraries right now.  

Yeah, but there's nothing encouraging it either.  It would be cool to
have a system that made it more rewarding to write reviews of Boost
libraries, in such a way that reviews would continue after the review
period.  Of course, that's mostly social engineering and someone would
have to figure out how to accomplish it :-)

Maybe if the reviews were more carefully archived and somehow viewable
separately from everything else, that'd be a first step.  Just
thinking out loud, now.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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