Re: [boost] [filesystem] PR backlog needs attention

Subject: Re: [boost] [filesystem] PR backlog needs attention
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-08-01 07:39:39

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:25 AM, Marshall Clow via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Rene Rivera via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 1:03 PM Marshall Clow via Boost <
>> boost_at_[hidden]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 7:01 PM, James E. King III via Boost <
>> > boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > There are 29 open PRs going back 3 years.  This backlog needs some
>> > > attention.  Some of the pull requests (like documentation changes to
>> fix
>> > > typos) are trivial.  I ran into a warning while building another
>> library
>> > > that I found was already submitted as a fix in the PRs, but has missed
>> > the
>> > > 1.68.0 release now.
>> > >
>> > Contact Beman, and see what he wants to do.
>> >
>>
>> I thought Beman retired from all things C++ and Boost.
>>
>>
> Beman has retired, but he's still around.
> (He's registered for CppCon in September, for example)
>
> We should find out what he wants to do with Boost.Filesystem.
> (He would probably want to find someone to maintain it, but we should ask
> him)

Have we heard from Beman yet?

-- 
Olaf