Re: [boost] [test] boost.test owner unresponsive to persistent problems for multiple years

On 10. jan. 2015 02:06, Richard wrote:

[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

Edward Diener spake the secret code thusly:

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On 1/8/2015 2:19 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:

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Paul A. Bristow wrote:

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Things that effect *everyone* require consultation and some degree of consensus.

The maintainer is always the decider. Consensus, even loose consensus, doesn't affect Boost at all afaik. I realize you don't see it that way.

I approve the fact that a primary maintainer is the decider. Someone has to be in charge, and surely that someone who did all the work of creating the library in the first place is the best candidate. If you disagree enough with the primary maintainer and feel your ideas/implementation are not being regarded and are better you can always create another library that reflects your own ideas and notify people on this mailing list about your own library.

In this case, that's already been done. It's called google test (gtest).

I am confused, are you responding on behalf of Paul, or yourself Richard? If I assume you respond on behalf of yourself, then I wonder if your intentions are too take over Boost.Test ownership and make it more or less into gtest, possibly breaking compatibility with existing test code. Probably not, but as you have offered to take over ownership of Boost.Test I think you need to be more clear about what your intentions would be if you took over? Thanks for your effort by the way Richard! I do however think you should moderate your tone, hidden or literate, in some of your postings given the maintainer seems to be responding now and have co-maintainers/helpers. That may help getting better discussions on the list which I think we all would like. Thanks, -- Bjørn