Re: [Asset Stewardship] About the Beman Project

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-11 13:09:52

On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 6:04 AM Andrzej Krzemienski via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> If one feels one got a green light from LEWG that one's
> library will be accepted into STD, the motivation for putting it into Boost
> diminishes. Here, I do not think we will be able to do much.

Inbal Levi is a member of the Boost Foundation Board of Directors. She
is also the chair of LEWG. Every library-only proposal for C++
(including std::execution) must go through LEWG first. LEWG could
simply adopt as a policy, that any library-only proposal must already
be published as a library, for a minimum period of time, and having
acquired users and integration in other public projects. This doesn't
mean it has to be accepted into Boost first, although that is an
option.

The "green light from LEWG" could be changed to a red light. My
personal opinion is that if the only thing that LEWG did was to reject
all pure library proposals for ten years, C++ would be improved.

Thanks