Re: What is this "Beman Project Development"?

From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-05-07 13:23:28

On 03/05/2024 17:45, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell via Boost wrote:
> I got the email below from discourse.boost.org (I had subscribed long ago).
> So getting something was not unexpected. What I'm wondering about are this:
> 
> Q: What is this new "Beman Project Development" thing about?
> A: It's something from C++Now initiated by The Boost Foundation (DBA)
> 
> Q: Did they get permission from the Beman family to use Beman Dawes' name
> this way?
> A: ??

There is also a website: https://www.bemanproject.org/

And a github org with projects: https://github.com/beman-project

And here is some more documentation which looks like this is intended to 
be a successor/replacement of Boost: 
https://github.com/beman-project/beman/wiki/Governance-Documents and 
https://github.com/beman-project/beman/wiki/Mission-Statement.

I see a number of long standing Boost folk involved.

I am very much out of the loop of all things C++ recently (indeed, I now 
write C not C++ for the day job), so obviously things have been 
a'happening in the background, resources allocated, decisions taken.

It would be nice if some of those long standing Boost folk could explain 
some more.

I might add - speaking personally - that I don't think the problem is 
getting a library into a fit state for standardisation, but rather how 
library standardisation works at WG21 is not fit for purpose in my 
opinion. In other words, the problem isn't a technical one, it's a 
_process_ and _political_ problem, in my opinion. So, in my opinion, I 
think they'll be tilting at windmills.

Other standards bodies don't have those problems, so I really think WG21 
needs to change how it implements library standardisation. All that 
said, I wish the best of luck to the Beman project people in their 
efforts, and to WG21 in general.

Niall