On January 15, 2015 5:37:15 PM EST, Edward Diener
On 1/15/2015 4:25 PM, Niall Douglas wrote:
On 15 Jan 2015 at 12:42, Edward Diener wrote:
I highly object to the tone of your response. Bringing up a matter on this mailing list related to a Boost library is not a command for anyone to do anything. By responding the way you have done you are discouraging people with issues from using Boost mailing lists to start a discussion about a particular library.
I apologise if I have offended anyone on the list, including you Edward.
Thanks for apologizing.
However, there is an etiquette when dealing with deficiencies in open source libraries. You first raise the issue with the library's maintainers before going onto public lists - and before I replied to the OP, I checked the github ASIO issue tracker and the Boost issue tracker and found no mention of the deficiencies.
I do not know of anything within Boost which says that library maintainers are supposed to be contacted directly before one posts issues on the mailing lists. In fact I have always assumed that the mailing lists were the correct way to first bring up an issue and only if there was no response from anybody connected with the library in question does one then attempt to go further.
Indeed, Boost does not work that way. One may communicate with a library maintainer any way one wishes and that includes using this list. ___ Rob (Sent from my portable computation engine)