Re: Boost Asset Stewardship Review begins today (3rd Sept)

From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-20 11:26:27

El 20/09/2024 a las 8:37, Julien Blanc via Boost escribió:
> My understanding is that it is an agreement between a non-profit and
> three physical persons. So, my guess is that part of the outcome of
> this review is acknowledging that these three persons (or five, as some
> have suggested to add a few names) can act on behalf of the boost
> community. Is that correct?

Those three can only take decisions on behalf of the community regarding 
the assets that the fiscal sponsor manages (domain, infrastructure...). 
Since the fiscal sponsor can't sign the agreement with every single 
boost community member, we need to somehow pick some representative 
members to sign.

As Rene explained in one of his posts, when deciding on behalf of the 
community, the procedure would be to have a review process so that that 
new SC can know what should transmit to the fiscal sponsor.

How the Boost project is organized, how should technically evolve, etc. 
is outside this review and only the boost community can decide on this. 
E.g.: this new "steering committee" has nothing to say in what build 
system, C++ standard level version, documentation tools, etc. should the 
project use, which library should be accepted, etc.

In their theoretical missions, the original steering committee 
(https://web.archive.org/web/20141224160315/https://sites.google.com/a/boost.org/steering/) 
and Foundation 
(https://sites.google.com/boost.org/boost-foundation/home) claimed to 
have some sort of "general Boost project steering" powers:

SC: "Committee is to be able to commit the organization to specific 
action either where consensus cannot be reached, but a decision must be 
made"

Foundation: "making directional decisions in the event of Boost 
community deadlock".

But in practice that never worked and the new SC should never claim that 
has attributions outside the shared assets the are covered by the agreement.

Best,

Ion