Roland Bock wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
At Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:46:35 +0100, Roland Bock wrote:
A question from a user and occasional contributor to the overflowing bug tracker, hoping that you can provide an answer without compromising the dramatics for BoostCon :-)
How could decentralization influence the overflowing bug tracker?
A very good question. The most obvious thing is that projects could all choose their own issue tracking systems, so nobody needs to be bogged down by the slowness of a single Trac instance or tied to the current stagnation of the Trac development effort.
Hmm. At this point, what sounded cool earlier, now becomes a bit frightening. Where do you intend the decentralization to stop?
If we are going to follow that path, the next logical step would be that each project could have its own mailing list (which some of them have anyway).
I must admit, I wouldn't be much of a fan of that. I am on far too many mailing lists already. And the central mailing list is nice because so many stimulating ideas are passing through. Also, sometimes I wonder: is there a boost library that could help me with problem XY? I send a question to the central list and usually get an answer, soon. Without a central list, where would I send such a question?
As an example, at OSGeo Foundation (http://osgeo.org), there number of project and quite a number of mailing lists (http://lists.osgeo.org). There is also one general list called OSGeo Discuss and people post there question "What lib/tool can solve problem X?". I'd say, it works and having project-specific lists works well as they are kept focused on particular problem. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net