Re: [boost] Splitting/rearranging Boost.Utility

Subject: Re: [boost] Splitting/rearranging Boost.Utility
From: Ahmed Charles (acharles_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-11 22:21:34

> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:38:33 +0000
> From: daniel_at_[hidden]
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] Splitting/rearranging Boost.Utility
> 
> On 12 December 2013 00:24, Alexander Lamaison <awl03_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> >> It seems unlikely that this community team would
> >> consist of people who have sufficiently proven themselves in the boost
> >> community to maintain core components.
> >
> > I'm sure there's more than one person who understands the core
> > components.  Having it otherwise would put Boost in a vulnerable
> > posistion.  There's a good reason that companies make sure no important
> > component is understood by just one developer.
> 
> Just because someone isn't given commit access doesn't mean that they
> don't understand the component. You're conflating different issues.

Perhaps we could get back to using this thread to talk about the future of Utility? I think there are other threads with the community team discussion going on.