Re: [boost] Maintenance NOT suspended

Subject: Re: [boost] Maintenance NOT suspended
From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-08 17:52:03

> On Jul 8, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Christophe Henry wrote:
> 
> > I would like to attract your attention to the very special position
> > you have in this community, especially among newcomers I count myself
> > with. Seeing dave (I mean THE dave! ;-) ) not maintaining his
> > libraries creates a precedent and sends a wrong signal, which deals a
> > blow to boost's credibility. Companies could wonder, waow, if the
> > community cannot even help dave maintain his libraries, in which state
> > must be others?
> >
> > Also considering that ryppl is so far not a reality yet and not even
> > agreed on, we need a solution for the time being.
> > Why not simply request help from the community to which you brought so
> > much? I'm sure that many would be happy to help you on this.
> 
> Heh, leave it to the Boost community to teach me that there's a Boost
> community! Thank you, Christophe, you're very right.
> 
> I hereby apologize to the community for my earlier announcement and
> request that you accept a retraction :-)
> 
> > So, concretely, what is the problem? Do you have no time handling the
> > feature requests or is svn the problem?
> 
> I'll prepare a proper response to these questions in a separate message,
> but I wanted to head off any damage immediately.

Thank you for reconsidering!
Regards Hartmut

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