Boost Asset Stewardship Review from Nick Thomson

From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-06 14:03:16

Nick sent the following review to me at glenfe -at- boost.org.

> From: Nick Thompson
> Date: On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 18:26
> Subject: Fw: Boost Asset Stewardship Review
> To: Glen Fernandes
>
> Vote: Transfer Boost Assets to the C++ Alliance
>
> Association with library: Contributor to math, multiprecision,
> integer, random, and circular_buffer. Main contributions include
> black box optimization, quadrature, and statistics in Boost.Math.
>
> Rationale:
>
> My contributions to Boost have mainly been implementation of
> numerical algorithms. With each of these additions, years of future
> maintenance work is implied. Even with the heroic efforts of John
> Maddock, without the financial support of the C++ Alliance, these
> libraries would accumulate so many open tickets that our reputation
> would be badly damaged. Moreover, the utility of these libraries
> would be greatly reduced. For example, there would be no way we could
> support scipy's effort to expose Boost.Math to python-probably one of
> the most impactful uses of Boost to date. The risk of the project
> becoming completely defunk or slowly drifting into irrelevance
> without continued financial support is extremely high. So as long as
> the C++ Alliance is funding the maintenance, they should have the
> most say in the continued operation of the library.
>
> Nick Thompson

Nick, thank you for contributing a review.

- Glen