Re: Stewardship Review Request

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-08-13 13:56:19

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 3:14 AM John Maddock via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Since "governance" primarily effects library authors, their viewpoints should
> probably carry the greatest weight.

There are two governing entities associated with Boost:

* The Foundation which controls the boost.org domain and wowbagger
server (hosting the website and mailing lists).
* The Developers, defined as the set of users in the Boost GitHub
Organization with the Owner role, plus their designated proxies.

With Alliance as the governing entity of boost.org and its cloud
services, authors will notice little to no impact on their libraries,
as it is always the Developers who have unambiguous authority. Boost
would see significant effects from Alliance efforts to increase
participation in the project, and these efforts would be external to
the repositories in the Boost GitHub Organization and thus not impact
authors.

However authors would be affected by seeing a new website when
visiting boost.org (check out the preview at https://boost.io) so in
this sense the governance affects them. Yet this too is under the
dominion of the Developers, as the new website has been donated to the
Boost GitHub Organization, where meaningful changes go through the
existing pull-request-based approval workflow.

Thanks