Re: [JSON][review] Result

From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-10-05 18:41:42

On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 19:58, Hadriel Kaplan <hadrielk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > On Oct 5, 2020, at 1:38 PM, Mateusz Loskot via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> >> boost.org should have its own forum, instead of mailing lists. And
> >> when there is a formal review, the wizards create a subforum
> >> specifically for the review. Thus all posts and discussion relevant to
> >> the review will be categorized / organized into one subforum which
> >> after 3 months is then moved from "Recent Reviews" to "Archived
> >> Reviews" where they become available and viewable in perpetuity.
> >
> > We have been incapable of pushing the idea of paying for
> > CI services forward for year+, where money is no issue, I hear,
> > that would impose zero maintenance cost on Boost folks.
> > And, you are proposing to set up a new piece of infrastructure,
> > with accounts, security, that will also require moderation, etc.
> > Although I really like the idea, I can't see it feasible.
>
> Just thinking out of the box, and this may be a horrible idea, but… what if you created a new `boostorg-proposed` account on GitHub, where every proposed library gets moved into as a separate repo, before their review starts.
>
> Then each individual review can be a GitHub issue for that, and comments to each review can be comments inside that review-issue.
>
> People can then subscribe or not to the specific proposal repos for issues and changes.
>
> And the reviews and their comments live in perpetuity (or as long as GitHub does I suppose).
>
> If the proposal is accepted, then the repo is copied/cloned into `boostorg` as it is today, and a link is added to the readme.md pointing to that library's proposal repo for finding reviews and their comments.
>
> The “infrastructure” aspect is then already in-place.

I'll leave it to Robert Ramey to comment if that would solve the
issues he pointed out.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net