
Hi Everyone, I was looking around at the Trac wiki and saw that there's a page called "ImprovingPractices". It's https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingPractices if you want to look. The Objectives stated on the page are definitely the same ones I am looking to address with a proposal I was thinking of writing from scratch. A quick read through definitely seems to me that there is significant overlap between what I had in mind and what's already in this document. One thing that doesn't seem to be in this document, is how to get new libraries into a Boost distribution. I'm not sure if this part should be in the same document either, but I really do think that somehow the continuity between the development of a library for inclusion into Boost and the release procedure should be in-tune. The document also assumes that the development of a library happens in the same repository -- mainly because it assumes that subversion is going to be used exclusively. That's understandable, but in the case of a proposal to support Git-based libraries as well I wonder whether it's alright if I edit this document for the proposed enhancements. So my question would be: - What would be the best way for me to solicit feedback on a proposal that tweaks the current process? Is editing this wiki page the way or should I create a new one? - Because there a number of parts of the proposal I'm going to write that deal with things on the front-end of the process (the interest-gathering, development (collaborative or otherwise), and review/inclusion part) as well as the back-end of the process (distribution maintenance, bug fixing / patching, and release management / packaging) is it better if these areas are described in different Wiki pages or should one page with different sections suffice? - Is the Wiki the best place to put this? Would others be more comfortable in a different means of looking at and commenting on a complete proposal? Thanks in advance and I definitely look forward to feedback and guidance. -- Dean Michael Berris about.me/deanberris