Re: [boost] Boost contributing tutorial (GitHub)

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost contributing tutorial (GitHub)
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-21 09:47:17

On 21/05/2014 9:17 AM, Adam Wulkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I prepared a tutorial about the contributing at GitHub/Boost describing
> how to create a Fork of a library, use it inside modular Boost and
> create a pull request. The tutorial presents examples for Boost.Geometry
> but could be extended to the other libraries. It has a form of a README
> of this repository:
>
> https://github.com/awulkiew/temp-contributing
>
> Would you be so kind and see if everything is ok wth it?
> In praticular I'd like to hear if this model is good for modular Boost
> in general?

This is a good start from my perspective, thanks for doing it.

My selfish question is: how would you recommend maintaining more than 
one fork of a boost library? Just repeat the process? What about long 
term for forks that are never merged for whatever reason?

Thanks!

Sohail