Re: [boost] C++ Standards Committee membership for Boost?

Subject: Re: [boost] C++ Standards Committee membership for Boost?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-25 06:31:16

on Thu May 10 2012, Nathan Ridge <zeratul976-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:

>> From: mjklaim_at_[hidden]
>>
>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> > My definition of a "Booster" is anyone who has been participating in
>> > Boost, and the admittedly vague definition of "participating" is very
>
>> > broad, and goes far beyond library authors.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be a problem for the C++ commitee?
>> My understanding it that the mailing list is voluntarily kept closed to
>> avoid
>> a lot of problem like trolling or out-of-scope subjects that occur
>> naturally in
>> open communities (even boost). I might be wrong, I didn't read any official
>> info about this.
>>
>> But allowing this large definition of boosters to be able to mail the
>> C++ committee mailing list
>> would then open a breach for them, wouldn't it?
>
> Not everyone agrees with the closed nature of the committee mailing lists.

And there's some indication that said nature may be changing.  Stay
tuned...

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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