Re: [boost] [admin] Turning on Issues tab on Github for Boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] [admin] Turning on Issues tab on Github for Boost libraries
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-09-28 15:46:45

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Edward Diener via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Can we not have some resolution from an administrator about turning on the
> Issues tab in Github for Boost libraries ? There are two 'admin' issues
> regarding this and, since it should be a quick job for an administrator to
> implement this, I would really prefer not to wait for a long time for this
> to get done. Just now I had a "bogus" PR for iostreams, which I rejected,
> and the explanation from the person who created the PR was that the PR was
> "created" because there was no Issue tab for the library and he was only
> trying to create an Issue to be looked at. There is absolutely no logical
> reason that I can think of why the Issue tab on Github cannot be turned on
> for Boost libraries, to benefit end-users.
>

The usual solution on this has up to now been that the admin of the
particular library repo turns issues on. If you are a library maintainer
and aren't the admin for the library repo.. File an admin issue to get the
admin access to your repo.

Note, I'm just pointing out what the procedure has been so far :-)

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