[boost] Responsibility for orphaned libraries

From: Keith MacDonald (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-25 09:26:33

The mysterious disappearance of Jonathan Turkanis (not heard from here since 
last October; home page says he's at UCB, but a directory search at UCB does 
not find him) set me wondering about the risk of using Boost libraries. 
Like iostreams, they are generally one-man works, which may be beyond an end 
user's ability or remit to maintain.  Even if the author does not disappear, 
he may eventually lose interest or simply be too busy to maintain it 
forever, so do Boost have any procedures in place for such eventualities?