Can't find documentation for contributing to Boost.
I'm thinking of sending in a fix for https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7630, and to do that I need to check out Boost at head and run the tests for the Range project. So I went to http://www.boost.org/development/index.html hoping to find instructions. That page has some useless graphs and a calendar, but no mention of source control or command lines. I don't want to contribute testing resources, so I look on the right side for something that looks useful. "Submissions" leads to http://www.boost.org/development/submissions.html, which talks about contributing a whole new library rather than fixing bugs in an existing one. Nothing else in the right-side navigation box looks like it's going to help. A couple times in the past, I've just given up at this point, but this time I decided to let you know about the problem. Could someone write down how to fix a bug in Boost and put it somewhere I can find it on the website? Thanks, Jeffrey
AMDG On 05/18/2013 04:36 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
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Nothing else in the right-side navigation box looks like it's going to help. A couple times in the past, I've just given up at this point, but this time I decided to let you know about the problem.
Could someone write down how to fix a bug in Boost and put it somewhere I can find it on the website?
http://www.boost.org/support/bugs.html? In Christ, Steven Watanabe
On 19 May 2013 00:44, Steven Watanabe
On 05/18/2013 04:36 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
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Nothing else in the right-side navigation box looks like it's going to help. A couple times in the past, I've just given up at this point, but this time I decided to let you know about the problem.
Could someone write down how to fix a bug in Boost and put it somewhere I can find it on the website?
I've tried to make it a little easier to find that in the sidebar.
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Daniel James
On 19 May 2013 00:44, Steven Watanabe
wrote: On 05/18/2013 04:36 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
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Nothing else in the right-side navigation box looks like it's going to help. A couple times in the past, I've just given up at this point, but this time I decided to let you know about the problem.
Could someone write down how to fix a bug in Boost and put it somewhere I can find it on the website?
I've tried to make it a little easier to find that in the sidebar.
Thanks. That should help some, although if I were looking to add a feature, I wouldn't necessarily find it. The checkout instructions on the bugs.html page aren't great. To find them, I can't read the "If You Have a Fix for the Bug" section, since that just links to http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/, which isn't enough to check out the repository. I have to instead read the "Reporting Boost bugs" section (i.e. not what I'm trying to do), and click the "boost public subversion repository" link. Why not include "svn co http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk boost-trunk" directly on the page? Testing looks like it's covered on the separate "Running Regression Tests" link, so that's enough for me to get started. Thanks for the links, Jeffrey
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Daniel James
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Jeffrey Yasskin
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Steven Watanabe