Re: [boost] Becoming Maintainer of the Iterator Library

Subject: Re: [boost] Becoming Maintainer of the Iterator Library
From: Nathan Wilson (nwilson20_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-12-21 17:21:38

Hi Vicente,

Thank you for the link to the Active tickets.

Sure, I can start taking a look at the issues, doing the follow up, and
then going from there.

Appreciate the info. I'll most likely have some follow up questions as well.

Thanks again,
Nate

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba <
vicente.botet_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Le 17/12/2015 23:28, Nathan Wilson a écrit :
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There was talk on the mailing list a few months back, and was apparently
>> discussed at CppCon in September, about becoming a Library Maintainer.
>> This
>> was pertaining to Libraries which are either being maintained by the CMT,
>> or as Edward Diener mentioned, Libraries which aren't in the CMT's hands
>> but the current maintainer(s) don't have time to devote to maintaining the
>> particular library.
>>
>> That said, after having discussed it with a few people outside the mailing
>> list, I would like to volunteer to become a Maintainer of Boost's Iterator
>> Library. I have not been active on Boost's mailing list, but have
>> participated in the C++ Standardization Process with the paper Delimited
>> Iterators (http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4257.html
>> )
>> which will be in the Library Technical Specification 2. I have also
>> submitted/committed some Patches in Clang as well. I just wanted to
>> mention
>> those couple of things as a point of reference so this didn't seem
>> entirely
>> random. Anyway, I'd be really excited to help contribute and help Boost by
>> becoming a Maintainer of the Iterator Library.
>>
>> I do have some concern about compiling on various versions of Windows/OSX
>> though. I have a Windows 8.1 machine and could obviously use Visual
>> Studio,
>> but I'm not too sure about verification of older Windows/OSX versions. On
>> Linux I can certainly create VMs for various distros. If anyone has some
>> best practices or advice about handling different OS distros/versions,
>> that
>> would be great.
>>
>> Please let me know if there are any questions.
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>
> glad to see new people wanting to maintain an unmaintained library.
>
> I suggest you to lock at the tickets at
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=iterator&col=id&col=summary&col=type&col=changetime&desc=1&order=id
>
> Start by doing the follow up of them, there are surely some that are easy
> to fix. Add a comment when you want to take care of an issue.
>
> You can submit as many pull requests on github as you can. The CMT would
> take care of them if there is no active maintainer. This will give them
> enough information about your capacities and dedication. 3 months later you
> could request again to become an official maintainer showing what you have
> reached to manage.
>
>
> Good luck,
> Vicente
>
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