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Subject: Re: [boost] [partly OT] Re: [review queue] What to do about the library review queue?
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-16 17:27:36


Paul A. Bristow wrote:
> > From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Vinnie
> > Falco via Boost
> > Here's an alternative, lock Trac so no new issues can be created, inform
> > users they should open new issues using GitHub, then fix all the open
> > issues remaining on Trac so there's nothing to port :)
>
> That might be a bit nuclear - what about all the outstanding issues and
> discussions in the process of being fixed?

Vinnie's suggestion is to disable new issue creation; outstanding issues
will remain unaffected. It was I who proposed putting it all on read-only.
:-)

> PS How should we reference GitHub discussions in 'history' documentation
> so that I (and the search engines) can find them? The equivalent of, for
> example, https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/12908).

For references, don't links to Github work fine? F.ex.
https://github.com/boostorg/build/issues/168

Not sure about search engines.


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