on Thu May 09 2013, Niall Douglas <ndouglas-AT-blackberry.com> wrote:

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Just to be clear and for the record, I have no compelling arguments, no plan for migration, and I am in no way criticizing your work, your leadership, nor suggesting the throwing away of any planning or coding. I apologise unreservedly if anything in my words appeared that way. I am absolutely sure that you have given this the very deepest of thought and I - as always actually - trust your judgment. I am simply confused.

OK. I don't know how to un-confuse you, though, sorry. [snip] Unfortunately for my workload, the community begs to differ.

The lightbulb has switched on: I had been confused because I had thinking the migration was based on technical arguments. I now realize the arguments are mostly non-technical, so I am now deconfused. Thanks for the illumination.

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We can talk about this at C++ Now next week, but if we were to coordinate our efforts and I have definite approval and support from Boost SC, I have no objection to volunteering for this.

I don't see what difference approval from the steering committee makes. If you think it would be helpful, you can go ahead.

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That probably is unacceptable to you given your apparent plans.

Yeah, we want to get this thing over with. Thanks for the suggestions,

A two way mirror would need changes to the main Boost SVN installation. Changes which could lose data and cause outages. It's not something I'd proceed with without unanimous support, especially for moral support if data loss did occur. though. I understand entirely now. Sorry it took a while. Do get in touch if you need it. Niall --- Opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of BlackBerry Inc.