The current comment system is (I believe) well suited to those C++ programmers which do not use the boost dev list.
True, but it doesn't immediately raise a discussion - a message posted here gets seen by quite a few people, hopefully some of whom will be motivated to respond.
Damn - I just can't win here!
Well that goes without saying ;)
Without making any commitment to any major changes, please post your comment in the incubator. I'll then have at least one good thread to use as an example, test, for the commenting mechanism. I'm only asking that we try this out for this one library - safe numerics. Turns out that this is a great example. It's simple enough to understand by everyone without spending a lot of of time. And it raises non-trivial issues worthy of discussion. It may even provoke submission of a competing solution. This could bode well for the future of Boost as I see it.
I've just replied to the comments on safe-numerics, I note: * As already said, I found the lack of a preview an issue. * Without a preview, there was no easy way to quote the previous message, nor did clicking reply automatically give me quoted text to edit down. * After a submit, I felt a little lost, and had to go searching for the reply I'd posted (scroll down quite a way, and re-expand the comments section). HTH, John.