On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 14:40 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:
Julio,
I appreciate the effort you've gone to in trying to improve Boost's documentation. That said, in general, every Boost library and its documentation is maintained by a different person. We watch the list and look to see if bug reports, patches, and questions apply to us. If I see a message declaring that it fixes a typo without mentioning the library it fixes, I might not even look at it. If the message contains a gzipped attachment I can't read without processing it, and that refers to "my last two emails" that aren't even reachable through the same discussion thread as this message and includes no links to archived messages, the likelihood is that I'm going to decide it's not worth my trouble. This is not ingratitude; it's just how things tend to work out.
No worries; I understand your concerns. Sorry about the useless mail. Looks like this list works a bit differently to the ones I'm used to participate in (where referring to recent mails usually works and all developers usually freely touch all the code ;). Anyway, thanks for the explanations; I'll try to be more careful next time.
Global patches are especially hard, because somebody needs to take the initiative to modify other peoples' stuff. If you want to make it easier for maintainers, the first thing you could do is to post a new message with a subject line that makes it clear you're posting a broad patch to the documentation tree, that covers many libraries, and consolidate all your patches into one attachment rather than doing it in phases.
Given that they are "hard", I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to file a bug report in sourceforge rather than sending the patch to the list? I sent them here at first because, according to the website, there is a higher chance of being looked at. Kind regards, -- Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com> http://www.livejournal.com/users/jmmv/ The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/