On 1/31/2011 7:31 PM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Joel de Guzman
Question though is do you think you and a lot more others who want to contribute can be more effective with a different tool?
What's the point of comparison when you say "more" effective? How do you measure effectivity in the first place? As far as I know, Boost produces top notch libraries that are more effective than even a thousand GIT hosted open source libraries out there. As an analogy, an instant camera in the hands of a pro will produce superb results, while a top of the line DSLR camera in the hands of an amateur will never reach the same level of quality.
I can understand that sometimes there's no point in asking the question when you don't see a problem. But for me personally who would want to be able to be as contributory to the project as you guys, I do think there's a problem -- especially with scaling the effort.
If everyone else was in agreement that Boost is fine as it is now and that there wasn't a want to grow the contributor base and the community around the project, then I guess it is pointless because the top contributors are happy the way it is.
Although of course, us contributor wannabe's who want to be able to reach the same level as you guys would really want to be able to do it without causing too much trouble for either you guys or ourselves -- hence the question on the current process.
So if you guys think the tools and process are fine as they are now in allowing the project to scale to accommodate more contributors, then I just have to disagree from a wannabe perspective from now on... until maybe the next discussion on the matter comes up again. :P
There are problems with the process. I'm sure there's no argument there. I think, and this is my just my humble opinion of course, that the discussions are focusing too much on the tools as like a silver bullet that will somehow solve all the process problems that we are having. Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boostpro.com http://boost-spirit.com