Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Become a Library Maintainer
From: Alexander Olivas (olivas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-26 21:11:33
On 9/26/15 12:52 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 9/26/2015 3:29 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 25/09/2015 23:55, Alexander Olivas wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/25/15 1:43 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
>>>> On 9/25/2015 9:51 AM, Alex Olivas wrote:
>>>>> Hey All,
>>>>> This was just announced this week at CppCon (originally
>>>>> proposed at
>>>>> C++Now, by Robert Ramey). There's a new program and process to allow
>>>>> teams, who may be maintaining boost libraries internally, to become
>>>>> official maintainers. These are libraries that are currently being
>>>>> maintained by the Boost Community Maintenance Team
>>>>> (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance) :
>>>>>
>>>>> * Boost.ConceptCheck
>>>>> * Boost.DateTime
>>>>> * Boost.DisjointSet
>>>>> * Boost.DynamicBitset
>>>>> * Boost.Format
>>>>> * Boost.Function
>>>>> * Boost.Logic
>>>>> * Boost.MPL
>>>>> * Boost.PropertyMap
>>>>> * Boost.Signals (which is deprecated)
>>>>> * Boost.Tokenizer
>>>>>
>>
>> Pool should probably be added to that list - it's unmaintained and the
>> author is long since gone - could possibly do with deprecating
>> actually :(
>
> I think the list of the libraries for CMT in the link above is out of
> date. I have 'pool', 'interval', 'rational', and 'uuid' in that list
> but I could be wrong.
>
Thanks again for the feedback. Some of the libraries mentioned above
made it onto my list with a cursory Trac ticket scan. Some of those
didn't. I'll look into all of them though and email the author as well
as the CMT.
Thanks again,
Alex.