The C++ Alliance

From: Louis Tatta (louis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-11-15 15:53:21

Hello, my name is Louis Tatta and I am the CEO of The C++ Alliance, a
non-profit founded by Vinnie Falco to support and bolster the C++ ecosystem
through open source and education. This serves as a formal introduction and
description of our recent activities to support Boost.

As you all know, Travis CI (continuous integration) became unusable for
Boost needs over a year ago. To ensure the availability of CI services, our
CTO and chief of devops Samuel Darwin (“Sam”) has deployed Drone CI, an
open source continuous integration framework, onto scalable Amazon Web
Services instances rented by us.

Over the last year there has been some turnover in terms of key individuals
who administer the Boost website and support the Boost release process. We
have made Sam’s time and expertise available to the Boost organization to
support the release managers and core developers as needed to resolve IT
issues.

Vinnie has outlined a vision for revitalizing Boost by developing a new,
modern website to stimulate technical discussion and publication of
educational resources and ideas. To this end we have retained a design firm
and the leading Python development house to build a new interactive website
for Boost. The designs have been completed, and the coding for the website
has been underway now for almost a year. Given the current trajectory we
estimate that this project will be ready for internal viewing, testing, and
feedback by authors and maintainers at the end of Q1 2023.

Our current engineer staffing and projects are as follows:

Klemens Morgenstern, a full-time Staff Engineer, is maintaining the
Boost.Beast library and developing a new high client library built on Beast
and Asio.

Alan de Freitas, a full-time Staff Engineer, has been working on Boost.URL
(now accepted) for the last year and has also taken over maintenance of
Boost.StaticString.

Dmitry Arkhipov, a part-time Staff Engineer is maintaining Boost.JSON,
adding new features with guidance from Peter Dimov.

Christian Mazakas, a full-time Staff Engineer and Joaquín M López Muñoz, a
part-time Staff Engineer, have been working on the Boost.Unordered
improvement project which is overseen by Peter Dimov.

If anyone has questions about any of this please feel free to ask, or reach
out to me by email.