Re: [Boost-users] Fix for annoying bug / library maintenance

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Fix for annoying bug / library maintenance
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-23 14:34:30

On 3/21/2014 8:58 AM, Filip Konvička wrote:
> Hi,
>
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4964
>
> This is out there for years.  To me this seems to be clearly explained
> and a fix is provided, but apparently all bugs assigned to 'bgubenko'
> aren't monitored (for years there has been no reaction).
>
> So is there a way of getting the fix ever applied?  Or are such
> unmaintained libraries just doomed to eventually die, despite the
> efforts of the people reporting bugs and posting patches?
>
> Thanks,
> Filip

You could do a pull request for the interval library on the 'develop' 
branch. If the maintainer of 'interval' does not respond to that, then 
Boost could look for a co-maintainer who would do so. Also I suggest 
that you add an interval test as part of your pull request that shows 
the bug and that also shows that your fix is working.

https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/StartModPatchAndPullReq