Re: [boost] Is Boost dead? [Re: Anyone is interested in being review manager of ‘Application’?]

Subject: Re: [boost] Is Boost dead? [Re: Anyone is interested in being review manager of ‘Application’?]
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-16 13:37:19

On 09/05/2014 6:45 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> If you want to modularize, then decide that that is a goal for Boost and I
> will help.

My point of view is from a regular user of I don't know how many years 
who loves to submit patches when possible and not a developer of Boost 
so take this with that in mind. To me, modularization is completely 
unimportant. I just manually delete the stuff I don't need whenever I 
upgrade Boost.

I'm not sure why the different repos were created although I'm sure 
there are very legitimate reasons.

In my version, each maintainer forks the main repo (which has the source 
for everything) and issues pull requests for their libraries. I know it 
doesn't capture everything or cover every use case but man this would 
make it so much easier to create pull requests for itty bitty patches. 
As it is now, it is tedious to properly fork boost which is the whole 
point of git. Small patches are how you get regular new contributors.

Moving to git was a smart decision but my personal experience has shown 
that the current configuration does not encourage forking in a way that 
makes it easy to contribute.

Would anyone know what the rate of incoming patches from outside 
developers has been since the change? That would be an easy way to tell 
if it's just me being lazy (probably is).

Sohail