pulling the plug on Boost Library Incubator

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-11-17 18:51:11

I've been maintaining the Boost Library Incubator (www.blincubator.com) 
for some years now.  Maintaining is sort of mis-nomer since it not 
required any change for years now.  I never, ever touch it.  I was 
painful to get to that point though.

My motivation is the continuing evolution of github which I believe has 
come to embody almost of the goals I've had for the inclubator.  I would 
like a couple of tweaks to git hub - or maybe just some changes in our 
usage of it.  For example I'd like to see us proliferate the tags #Boost 
and #ProposedForBoost to help us search stuff but basically I believe 
that it has made boost library incubator obsolete.

So I'm inclined to terminate it when the domain comes up for renewal the 
next time.  Currently it has about 200 page views / day.  I don't really 
know how much of that a bots/rss feeds and the like.  I do you a service 
which detects and filters out almost all the obvious bogus hits, but 
still one never knows.

BTW - the tipping point for me is the addition of "sponsership" to 
github.  This looks to be the realization of an idea which I've promoted 
for many years in one for or another. I would like to successful open 
source project developers and maintainers get rewarded financially 
rewarded for their efforts and I see that git hub promoters seem to 
share this view - and they're in a position to move it toward reality.

When I can't sleep at night, I imagine that microsoft looked at the 
incubator and copied features from it into the git hub.  Feels like I'm 
dreaming so I don't feel like I'm awake anymore.

Robert Ramey