> -----Original Message----- > From: Boost-maint [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Andrey Semashev > Sent: 22 April 2014 19:10 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Boost-maint] Community Maintenance Team and neglected libraries > > On Wednesday 23 April 2014 00:29:17 Ben Pope wrote: > > In case you haven't heard of the CMT: > > https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance > > > > I'm also interested in getting the test results less yellow and more > > green, I don't have a lot of time, I'm sure I'm not alone. > > > > There are quite a few places where the library code is probably fine, > > but the failure is in the test itself, the fix is often simple and > > uncontroversial. > > > > These easy fixes should just happen; make a pull request, ticket with > > patch, whatever; commit goes in; reminder when tests have cycled; > > merged to master; profit. > > This is a recurring topic and unfortunately the problem still stands. CMT was a step > forward, but to my mind this is not enough. With SVN we had commit rights > everywhere, and such simple fixes went in much easier. After modularization some > libraries were left effectively unmaintained and inaccessible. CMT does have rights > to push to some libraries but not all and therefore does not fix the problem > completely. > > To my mind CMT should have access to all libraries, maintained or not. If a given > library is actively maintained then CMT doesn't need to intervene. > However, if the maintainer goes silent for considerable time, CMT has the ability to > apply such fixes.
+1 I'd go so far as to suggest that we go back to the previous SVN arrangements where all library authors had write access to everything. I don't remember it causing trouble - rather that it was felt so ill-mannered to change someone else's library that changes were not made when it would have much better if they had! Where I feel a finer grained control is useful is to allow write access just to experimental branches from develop. Paul --- Paul A. Bristow Prizet Farmhouse Kendal UK LA8 8AB +44 01539 561830 _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-maint
