Re: [Boost-users] Become a Library Maintainer

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Become a Library Maintainer
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-25 16:43:33

On 9/25/2015 9:51 AM, Alex Olivas wrote:
> Hey All,
>    This was just announced this week at CppCon (originally proposed at
> C++Now, by Robert Ramey).  There's a new program and process to allow
> teams, who may be maintaining boost libraries internally, to become
> official maintainers.  These are libraries that are currently being
> maintained by the Boost Community Maintenance Team
> (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance) :
>
>   * Boost.ConceptCheck
>   * Boost.DateTime
>   * Boost.DisjointSet
>   * Boost.DynamicBitset
>   * Boost.Format
>   * Boost.Function
>   * Boost.Logic
>   * Boost.MPL
>   * Boost.PropertyMap
>   * Boost.Signals (which is deprecated)
>   * Boost.Tokenizer
>
>
> More information about the program can be found here:
> http://beta.boost.org/community/official_library_maintainer_program.html
>
> If you're interested in becoming a Boost Library Official Maintiner,
> please send me an email.

I am not at CppCon but Boost can also use library maintainers for a 
number of libraries that are not in CMT ( I am a CMT member ), but for 
which the current maintainer(s) apparently does not have any time to 
devote to maintaining the particular library. I can think of 4 
libraries which fall into this category ( function_types, iterator, 
lambda, parameter ), but I suspect that there are many more.

Therefore I would like to add that if anyone is interested in becoming a 
Boost Library Official Maintainer for a library which appears to be 
neglected, and which is not one of the CMT libraries, I think they 
should be encouraged to say so on this mailing list or the Boost 
developers mailing list.