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Subject: Re: [boost] [partly OT] Re: [review queue] What to do about the library review queue?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-16 19:02:14


AMDG

On 03/16/2017 12:10 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>
>> Why not let individual project / library maintainers decide how to
>> implement the move (or whether they want to move to github issues at
>> all ?)
>
> Trac is global, so you can't stop people from opening tickets there for
> just some libraries.
>
> (Another benefit of using Github (which some will perceive as a
> drawback) is that you can't open an issue in Github without specifying
> the library, as you can in Trac.)
>

  And the corresponding disadvantage is that
if someone opens a ticket against the wrong
component, it can't just be reassigned (I've
seen this quite often in trac although it's
partly the fault of vaguely defined components
like Building Boost and Documentation).

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe


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