Re: [boost] "peer reviewed" - Rights and responsibilities of maintainers

Subject: Re: [boost] "peer reviewed" - Rights and responsibilities of maintainers
From: jrmarsha (jrmarsha_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-16 12:33:27

On 10/16/18 7:01 AM, Alexander Grund via Boost wrote:
>
>>
>>> So again: What is the Boost course on reviews of existing libraries 
>>> and the statement on the rights and responsibilities of maintainers?
>>
>> https://www.boost.org/community/reviews.html#Maintainer
> Thanks.
> "You are free to change your library in any way you wish". Ok...
>
> BTW: Should this paragraph possibly get an update to refer to Github 
> (PRs, issues, ...) and how to handle patches from others?
> It says "peer review is an important part of the Boost process" but 
> only relates to interface changes, not to internal changes although 
> they might break things or are supposed to fix them. "and to 
> participate as needed in discussions of your library on the boost 
> mailing lists." could be extended to include Github(?)
>

As someone trying to work my way up to take over as the graph 
maintainer, having a maintainer do this rubs me the wrong way.  If this 
kind of excitement is going to be stirred up, can you tell us the 
subproject so we can figure out what is happening?