Re: [boost] Boost on Android

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost on Android
From: Dmitry Moskalchuk (dm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-19 11:36:35

> I think the technical difficulty of an email once per month is 
> nothing like the cultural difficulty here. We don't name and shame at 
> Boost historically. I personally think we should, but it isn't my 
> call to make.
>
> The general process of getting a decision is to generate consensus 
> here on boost-dev somehow, and perhaps institute a voluntary opt in 
> prototype with a few volunteer maintainers (I'll volunteer AFIO right 
> now, and I can't see Vicente having a problem with Thread. Chris just 
> patched ASIO to fix your test failures after I asked him, so I'd 
> assume he'd be in too). After it's proven to work for some months and 
> the community feels comfortable (or not) with it, you then formally 
> ask the Boost Steering Committee for a resolution in favour of 
> instituting it across the board.
>
> That's my best suggestion anyway. Obviously these are matters far 
> wider than Android support, so it's a lot more thorny. For example, 
> if a library repeatedly gets stuck at the top of that name and shame 
> leaderboard, it could generate negative vibes around the library or 
> its maintainers which has unhelpful effects on the community. We 
> already have enough of that with Test.

Yes, it's clearly understandable. I just thought such mechanism was
already discussed and community already have kind of consensus on this.
If not - well, let's wait for others, what they will say.

-- 
Dmitry Moskalchuk