Re: [boost] [1.48.0] Beta 1 release candidates available

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.48.0] Beta 1 release candidates available
From: Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. (jeffrey.hellrung_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-01 22:30:39

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Dave Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> on Thu Oct 27 2011, "Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr." <
> jeffrey.hellrung-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> >> On 26 October 2011 14:41, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >> > Release candidate files for 1.48.0 beta 1 are available at
> >> > http://boost.cowic.de/rc/
> >>
> >> I've upload the documentation to the beta site.
> >>
> >> (Unfinished) release notes are here:
> >>
> >> http://beta.boost.org/users/history/version_1_48_0.html
> >>
> >> They're normally linked to from the beta home page, but not at the
> >> moment because I'm half way through changing things. There are a
> >> couple of broken links where the link is hard-coded to a particular
> >> version. I'll look into fixing that later, but for now you can edit
> >> the url yourself; replace /1_48_0/ with /1_48_0_beta1/ and it should
> >> work.
> >>
> >
> > I noticed the release notes fail to mention anything about Iterator,
> > specifically
> >
> > https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5697
> >
> > which I filed and provided patches for 3 months ago (with the help of
> > Dave).  I don't know if this patch was ever applied, but it'd be great
> it if
> > it was...!
>
> I don't think so.  Jeff, neither of my co-authors have done any
> maintenance on this library since it was accepted, and I personally have
> clearly run out of time.  Would you like to consider taking over as
> maintainer?

Hmmm...sure, assuming the rest of the community approves and can tolerate
an initial "hand-holding" period.

Can you point me to any online resources that can me ease me into the whats
and hows of maintaining a Boost library?

- Jeff