Re: [boost] AFIO review response

Subject: Re: [boost] AFIO review response
From: Agustín K-ballo Bergé (kaballo86_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-29 11:35:03

On 8/29/2015 12:27 PM, Niall Douglas wrote:
> On 29 Aug 2015 at 12:11, Agustín K-ballo Bergé wrote:
>
>> On 8/29/2015 11:48 AM, Niall Douglas wrote:
>>> For the record, I requested that the moderators intervene regarding
>>> his behaviour early on in this review as I felt no good was going to
>>> come of it. They declined to do so.
>>
>> This *sounds* deeply concerning. Rather than making assumptions, I would
>> appreciate if you could be a bit more concrete on what you mean by it.
>> If that request took part in email form, perhaps even give us a link to
>> the thread?
>
> I simply forwarded his first two emails with a request that an
> intervention be made.

Thanks. Are those two emails these:

http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2015/08/224776.php
http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2015/08/224782.php

> When he then submitted what I
> would consider a fake review which would have to be counted in AFIO's
> acceptance or rejection, I felt I was left no choice but to act in my
> defense as otherwise my library could be rejected for inappropriate
> reasons.

That's not how the Boost review process works. Votes aren't counted, 
they are weighted by a criteria of choice of the review manager.

> (For the record, I can see given the reviews to date why it might be
> rejected anyway, but that's not the point here. If it came down to
> say a score of 3 in favour and 3 against and his review tipped the
> scales to 4 against, that would be a big problem).

Again, that's not how the Boost review process works.

Regards,
-- 
Agustín K-ballo Bergé.-
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