[Boost-users] How to get bug reports addressed

Subject: [Boost-users] How to get bug reports addressed
From: Geoffrey Romer (gromer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-06 17:22:42

I'm responsible for maintaining the local Boost install for a large group of
developers, and I find myself spending an inordinate amount of time
reapplying our local patches for Boost bugs every time a new version comes
out, seemingly with no end in sight. One obvious example is
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3645: the report is clear and
specific, documents a real bug, and provides a trivial patch which
completely resolves the issue. It's everything one could possibly want in a
bug report, and it has been utterly ignored for over a year. In my
experience this has been the rule rather than the exception; other examples
that I've been personally acquainted with include
http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2009/06/153214.php,
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4918, and
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4919. In every case the reporters
have done everything they could to provide a useful bug report, up to and
including providing patches, but have been met with profound silence.

Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get action in these situations?