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Edward Diener
On 1/8/2015 2:19 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
Paul A. Bristow wrote:
Things that effect *everyone* require consultation and some degree of consensus.
The maintainer is always the decider. Consensus, even loose consensus, doesn't affect Boost at all afaik. I realize you don't see it that way.
I approve the fact that a primary maintainer is the decider. Someone has to be in charge, and surely that someone who did all the work of creating the library in the first place is the best candidate. If you disagree enough with the primary maintainer and feel your ideas/implementation are not being regarded and are better you can always create another library that reflects your own ideas and notify people on this mailing list about your own library.
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