Re: [boost] Boost summer of formal reviews

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost summer of formal reviews
From: Erik Erlandson (eje_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-11 16:08:22

> 
> To get a willing peer review manager a library already needs to
> become popular enough, so we already have that too. For example, not
> enough people are using AFIO, therefore no one wants to peer review
> manage it, therefore I agree AFIO should not enter Boost until it is
> popular enough - 

This makes some sense, but... if it doesn't get into Boost, how does it become popular?   As a policy, it's in danger of circular dependency:  "AFIO never made it into Boost because it wasn't popular.  It never got popular because it never made it into Boost..."