Re: Boost Asset Stewardship Review from Ruben

From: Phil Endecott (spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-13 16:39:12

Ruben Perez wrote:
> I'd like to echo a point made by others in the mailing list throughout
> this discussion and also somewhat reflected in The Boost Foundation's
> proposal, about mailing list friendliness to newcomers. When I first
> reached out to evaluate the potential usefulness of what would become
> Boost.MySQL (https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost//2020/03/248301.php)
> I received a couple of really discouraging comments, which almost made
> me abandon the idea. These comments were based on the (somehow
> understandable) misconception that my library was a wrapper around the
> official C API. Thanks to other people's support (Richard, Chris,
> Vinnie and some others, IIRC) I managed to move forward. But it could
> have not been the case. As a community, we could try to improve
> instances of this to make things better for newcomers.

I clicked on Ruben's link above, mainly to check if it was a comment from
me that he was complaining about. It wasn't. But I encourage others
to look at that email thread. Was it reasonable for Ruben to "almost
abandon the idea" based on the replies he received? Could the Boost
review process work effectively if messages such as those in that
thread were not allowed?

Regards, Phil.