Re: Boost Asset Stewardship Review - Some questions received

From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-10 01:50:33

On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 11:48 AM Hans wrote:
> > Recently, our downloads started approaching almost 200TB per month, and
> > now even JFrog couldn't afford to keep hosting us for free.
>
> Isn't that a contradiction to the Boost-is-in-decline narrative?

Different people measure this in different ways. Some others are:
- The number of new libraries proposed
- The amount of traffic on the mailing list.
- That the current website looks like it was designed for NCSA Mosaic

I think around ten years ago there was a presentation about how Boost
was dying because AFIO still wasn't accepted into Boost.

Glen