Re: [boost] Is Boost dead? [Re: Anyone is interested in being review manager of ‘Application’?]

Subject: Re: [boost] Is Boost dead? [Re: Anyone is interested in being review manager of ‘Application’?]
From: Adam Wulkiewicz (adam.wulkiewicz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-16 19:21:33

Hi,

Sohail Somani wrote:
>
> Moving to git was a smart decision but my personal experience has 
> shown that the current configuration does not encourage forking in a 
> way that makes it easy to contribute.
>
> Would anyone know what the rate of incoming patches from outside 
> developers has been since the change? That would be an easy way to 
> tell if it's just me being lazy (probably is). 

I don't understand all of those negative voices. Especially I don't 
understand how contributing can be considered difficult or harder than 
before.

I'm a contributor at Boost.Geometry and you can believe me or not but 
getting involved in the Boost library development was never easier than 
it is now. In Geometry we already have > 30 pull requests closed. On 
GitHub you can fork one library with one button click, make a change and 
create a pull request (with 2 button clicks and writing a message). 
Reviewing the code is extremely simple, you can discuss about the code 
or make comments about single lines. And working with GIT is a real 
pleasure WRT the SVN. But you even don't need to know how to use GIT 
since the changes can be made directly on GitHub or you can use their 
app on Windows to handle local repos. We have really great tools at hand 
so we should use them.

Regards,
Adam