Edward Diener wrote:
On 3/24/2010 1:11 AM, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Thanks John.
As for who might be willing to take over maintenance of someone else's Boost library I think there are enough skillful people who follow Boost that if there were a policy by which a new maintainer were to be looked for when an original author of a library no longer wishes to maintain it, another person would be found.
I think that for maintainance chores we do not need an owner/maintainer, but should simply allow anyone interested enough (who has "earned" svn access) to just fix them. Many big Open Source projects work this way, most even collect/mark issues that they want "newbees" to fix. Patches are usually send to the devel list and reviewd by one or more of the regulars. Someone who managed to get 2-3 patches commited will usually be given commit rights, and can then start to bring in more people. I think by giving maintainance to a group of people greatly lowers the barrier of entry into the community. regards Fabio