Re: Stewardship Review Request

From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-08-09 15:43:24

On 08/08/2024 23:38, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
> Recently the Boost Foundation offered the community two choices of
> organizations for stewardship of Boost's shared resources: itself, and The
> C++ Alliance. The project needs a decision, in order that its future may be
> determined.
> 
> The Formal Review Process is typically called upon to answer the question
> of whether a library should be accepted into the collection. I have
> proposed that we use the same process to determine the question of
> stewardship. It is not perfect, yet it is both familiar and enduring.
> 
> Although there are two designated review wizards, one is unavailable and
> the other is traveling. And review wizards have never been called upon to
> oversee non-library reviews.
> 
> Therefore, I would like to add a formal review to the calendar for the
> following days, inclusive:
> 
>      Monday August 19, to
>      Wednesday, August 28

Lots of Europeans are on their annual vacation in August and could not 
participate. We generally haven't done peer reviews in August as a 
result. Better to wait until September therefore.

Also, we are missing a bit. Normally there is a proposed Boost library 
for everybody to study and comment upon. Here we also need something for 
everybody to study and comment upon, otherwise the exercise will be useless.

We don't have the review managers manage the review of their own 
libraries for good reasons, so we can't do that here either.

Therefore it seems to me that somebody from the options before us needs 
to write a document for the community to study and comment upon. It 
would appear there are three camps: (i) C++ Alliance takes over entirely 
(ii) Boost Foundation retains everything (iii) something in between.

I would therefore propose that each camp produce a document arguing in 
favour of their option. Those three documents can then be the "library" 
under peer review.

I appreciate all this is a bit novel. If this approach is seen as the 
right way forwards, I guess we'd then need volunteers to do the work of 
crafting the documents. But let's see if this approach is any good first.

In any case, I would be surprised if those documents could be written, 
discussed internally by their camps, and then polished for presentation 
here before September.

Niall