Re: Review Wizard Report for November 2008
vicente.botet wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Phillips" <phillips <at> mps.ohio-state.edu>
>> In many cases, those old files are not maintained or are even removed
>> after the review is done. If it becomes part of Boost, it will be in the
>> trunk. If it does not, then it is entirely up to the author to decide
>> whether they even want it to be accessible anymore. It is entirely
>> reasonable to have the old information disappear when the review is
>> done, and I think it is a good choice.
>
> Do you find reasonable that this information is no more available to the Boost community?
> What about replacing the review dates by the accepted date?
The only things that are no longer available are libraries that did
not pass review and the author decided to remove, and libraries that did
pass review where the author decided to remove out of date versions.
Even in those cases, there may or may not have ever been a copy on boost
servers.
Once something has been released by boost, it is available even after
changes have been made. So, yes I am fine with authors deciding what to
do with their own pre-boost release libraries.
If people really want the accepted date, I would need a clear
definition of what that means. Is it the last day of the review, the day
the manager tells us that it was accepted, the day it was first added to
trunk, the date of first boost release, or some other date? What
information is contained in that date that is more useful than the
review dates? So far, I think it has been done this way because no one
has seen value in changing the date later (The current method predates
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