On 10/8/24 3:39 PM, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
Traditionally, tools used by authors and maintainers are quietly integrated with oversight from owners and release managers. Examples include saxon-he and docca (https://github.com/boostorg/docca). Recently there have been noises made expressing the desire for the formal review process to be applied to tools as well. The purpose of this post is to explain why this is a bad idea.
I don't think it's a good idea in general for authors to have carte blanche to add whatever tools they want to Boost because it _does_ affect others in the project. Complicating the Boost development toolchain without approval seems to fly in the spirit of fraternity that underpins Boost. I was also under the impression that Dmitry's tool would be user-facing. We've had nothing but popular reception about more debugger support and I think users would be interested in anything that helps them abstract this. - Christian