-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Turkanis Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 4:53 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] Re: Re: Typeof: Review result

Brian Braatz wrote:

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Here is an idea: what-cha think- We should add a "Wow" factor to the lib review template.

I dunno, maybe something like

"Rate the WOW factor of this library:(1-5)"

(now that I have made the suggestion, here comes the controversy (grin))

the question then becomes what if a library, gets all 1's. Does it still get accepted? I say no, there are plenty of "YET-ANOTHER-X" libraries out there already.

I say, (more controversy) that something can have a semi-boring functional use, but it's implementation, at the very least should have some "Wow" in it.

Most people seems to agree we need a bigint library. Somehow I'm skeptical we can find one with a WOW factor above 2. ;-)

Jonathan

[Brian Braatz Writes:] Hmm.. ON a serious note. It might be worth just "Capturing" the WOW factor, and using that as one piece of the "do we accept" or not puzzle.