Subject: Re: [boost] Splitting/rearranging Boost.Utility
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-11 19:38:33


On 12 December 2013 00:24, Alexander Lamaison <awl03_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> It seems unlikely that this community team would
>> consist of people who have sufficiently proven themselves in the boost
>> community to maintain core components.
>
> I'm sure there's more than one person who understands the core
> components. Having it otherwise would put Boost in a vulnerable
> posistion. There's a good reason that companies make sure no important
> component is understood by just one developer.

Just because someone isn't given commit access doesn't mean that they
don't understand the component. You're conflating different issues.