Andrey Semashev wrote:
On March 10, 2026 2:47:28 PM Peter Dimov via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Andrey Semashev wrote:
To be frank, I never fully understood the point of endorsement.
The point of endorsement was to prevent libraries that weren't ready for formal review to have such scheduled and thereby waste everyone's time.
I don't remember there being an influx of underprepared libraries. IIRC, endorsements were an attempt to prevent review periods with no submitted reviews. We didn't have those for a while, but we still did have review periods with little reviews, so I'm not sure how successful that attempt was.
Anyway, as I said, there are many ways to express interest in the library and a (non-binding) intention to review it. It's the formality of the act of endorsement and what it entails for the one who endorses is what I don't like or understand.
The formality was because the review wizard wasn't allowed to unilaterally decide to not schedule a review for a library, once such was requested.