Re: async-mqtt5 is CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTED

From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-10-30 15:17:35

On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 at 15:01, Christian Mazakas via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> This is an unfortunate miscarriage of a Boost review.
>

TL;TR: Sorry, but the critique you expressed is unclear to me.

> The author of the proposed library avoided all discussions about the design
>

AFAIK, there is no requirement that authors of the library under review
respond or participate in discussions during ongoing review of their
library.
Authors could simply respond "Thank you for your review." and this
would be a formally acceptable reaction.

"Many reviews include questions for library authors. Authors are interested
in defending their library against your criticisms; otherwise, they would
not
have brought their library up for review." is just an assumption of such
interest and will to offer reaction.

Second, there is nothing that stops reviewers to change their mind
before the end of the review period. Reviewers who are unhappy about
lack of answers from authors are free to change their mind assuming
such silent authors will not be interested or capable to fulfil their
maintainer's responsibilities [1]

> and then the library was prematurely accepted while the review was,
> honestly, still active.
>

You will need to be more specific here.

> I think we should petition the review wizards to contest this result and
> that we find a new review manager.
>

[1] https://www.boost.org/community/reviews.html

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