Re: [Boost-users] what happens between "fixed in development" and "available in release"?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] what happens between "fixed in development" and "available in release"?
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-19 12:50:59

On 19 Mar 2015 at 8:58, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

> > Those libraries without active maintainers I would personally avoid as
> > you're always going to be fighting to find someone willing to merge
> > fixes.
> 
> Sounds like sage advice. As a Boost user, how do I know which is which?

Check the release notes to see if the changelog hasn't mentioned the 
maintainer in many years. Ditto for the commit log. Another good sign 
is how old the oldest unfixed bugs on the issue tracker are. By those 
measures, perhaps as many as 20% of Boost libraries are looking 
unmaintained or poorly maintained. Symptom of maturity.

If a maintainer formally resigns or is known to be no longer 
available, the CMT can take over the library. However, most orphaned 
libraries right now are still technically maintained by their named 
maintainer even if we haven't see the maintainer in many years. The 
problem as always is finding new maintainer willing to sacrifice 
themselves sufficiently to be a good library maintainer.

Niall

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