Re: Does Anyone Need Help?

From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-04-17 19:54:21

On 17/04/2022 19:08, John Maddock via Boost wrote:

> I've often thought, that what Boost really needs is a "janitor". The 
> Janitor is someone who's qualified to mend just about anything that 
> breaks, doesn't mind doing the boring jobs that no one else what's to do 
> (at least not in their free time), and is willing to be told by others 
> what jobs are the next priority.
Before any of that, it would be great for somebody to go through all 
open issues in all boostorg libraries, see if the bug is valid, if it is 
score it for priority.

Once all open issues have been triaged and priority scored, then a work 
queue can be formed based on how many Boost users are negatively 
affected by the issue. Publishing a "bug impact" score per library would 
be super useful to aid end users not locking themselves into a 
known-buggy library and then finding nobody will even look at issues 
they open.

This is bread and butter stuff we've been sorely lacking for decades in 
the case of some libraries. I remember doing an age-weighted ranking of 
open issue count per library years ago, and it wasn't the libraries 
you'd think we came out on the top.

Niall