Re: Build Boost Back Better

From: Thomas Rodgers (trodgers_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-04-06 17:30:37

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 10:25 AM Niall Douglas via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 06/04/2022 17:48, Thomas Rodgers via Boost wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 4:41 PM Marshall Clow via Boost <
> > boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Apr 4, 2022, at 10:43 AM, Vinnie Falco via Boost
>  <boost_at_[hidden]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This came up before but it is worth mentioning again; in addition to a
> >>> website update to make boost.org <http://boost.org/> modern and
> >> relevant, how do we feel
> >>> about a transition to forum-based discussion instead of the mailing
> >>> list?
> >>
> >> Strongly opposed.
> >>
> >>
> > Also strongly opposed. I am now the maintainer of Boost for
> > Fedora/CentOS/RHEL (Jonathan is transition out of the role). If Boost
> > discussion moves to some forum that I have to chase down vs. just
> arriving
> > alongside the rest of my upstreams (e.g. libstdc++) it's likely to get
> > missed, so the quality of Fedora's distribution of Boost will likely
>  suffer.
>
> As kind of proof of the problem, a lot of the discussion around this
> topic has been occurring on Slack on #boost, rather than here.
>
> To sum up the discussion there, the more instant discussion happens on
> Slack, increasingly less immediate discussion is also happening on
> github discussions, and of course github issues.
>
> In other words, discussion around Boost increasingly:
>
> - Is centred per boostorg repo on github (library specific).
>
> - Occurs on Slack (instant) or on github boostorg repo (less instant).
>
> - Non-per-library discussion tends to happen increasingly on Reddit /r/cpp.
>
> Which is to say, discussion is not happening here on this mailing list,
> or on other mailing lists.
>
> So TBH Thomas the ship is sailing here already. The question is whether
> to actually do anything about it, or leave trends continue uninterrupted
> i.e. we're clearly already moving onto Github, Reddit, and Slack.
>
>
Well, my willingness to chase ships is limited...GitHub is the least bad
alternative for my purposes, IMO.

> Niall
>
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