shout out to Gennaro Prota
A few weeks ago Gennaro took over the maintenance of the Boost Serialization Library. I've been following his work on addressing a large backlog of issues and PRs. The reason there's such a backlog is that many/most of them are quite subtle and many are edge cases. My handling of these was to spend a little time on them and conclude - whoops this is non-trivial - I'll have to address it later when I have time. My assessment hasn't changed. But I'm really impressed with how many he has addressed in a serious and definitive manner. I'm very optimistic about the future of the Boost Serializaton library. I never imaged that it wouldn't be standardized by now. Now I see why - Here's to another 25 years of the Boost Serialization library. Congratulations to Gennaro for taking this on and being so successful at it. Robert Ramey
Robert, Thanks for writing this. Receiving credit from the person who built Serialization means a lot, and I'm glad Gennaro's work on the backlog is getting noticed. Thank you, Harry Bott harry@cppalliance.org On Thu, Aug 6, 2026, 2:58 PM Robert Ramey via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
A few weeks ago Gennaro took over the maintenance of the Boost Serialization Library. I've been following his work on addressing a large backlog of issues and PRs. The reason there's such a backlog is that many/most of them are quite subtle and many are edge cases. My handling of these was to spend a little time on them and conclude - whoops this is non-trivial - I'll have to address it later when I have time. My assessment hasn't changed. But I'm really impressed with how many he has addressed in a serious and definitive manner. I'm very optimistic about the future of the Boost Serializaton library. I never imaged that it wouldn't be standardized by now. Now I see why - Here's to another 25 years of the Boost Serialization library. Congratulations to Gennaro for taking this on and being so successful at it.
Robert Ramey
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Hi, Robert! Thank you! Your message really made my day! -- Gennaro Prota <https://prota.dev>
El 06/08/2026 a las 20:47, Robert Ramey via Boost escribió:
A few weeks ago Gennaro took over the maintenance of the Boost Serialization Library. I've been following his work on addressing a large backlog of issues and PRs. The reason there's such a backlog is that many/most of them are quite subtle and many are edge cases. My handling of these was to spend a little time on them and conclude - whoops this is non-trivial - I'll have to address it later when I have time. My assessment hasn't changed. But I'm really impressed with how many he has addressed in a serious and definitive manner. I'm very optimistic about the future of the Boost Serializaton library. I never imaged that it wouldn't be standardized by now. Now I see why - Here's to another 25 years of the Boost Serialization library. Congratulations to Gennaro for taking this on and being so successful at it.
Robert Ramey
Amazing message Robert. This will really motivate new talent to take responsability for existing Boost libraries. And congrats Gennaro, keep up the good work! Best, Ion
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Robert Ramey