Vinnie Falco wrote:
You said that it was inconvenient to report a bug, and I agree. You have to sign up for the list, wait for the email verification, then post by sending an email, and then wait for the moderator to approve it. And then you have to wait for the replies.
Here is an idea: we can present a web page "report an issue" which combines the process of posting a message and signing up for the mailing list. We can use OAuth, to also allow for Google or GitHub credentials to be used for skipping the verification step. This would streamline the process. The counter- argument is that these users should be using GitHub issues. There are advantages to each method. Through the mailing list, we get more activity and a consolidated view of needs. Through GitHub we get better technology and global visibility.
Our current procedure for reporting issues in general is (1) users open issues in boostorg/boost, (2) Marshall occasionally looks at them and moves them to the appropriate repo. This can probably be improved. :-)