Re: [Boost-users] Become a Library Maintainer

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Become a Library Maintainer
From: Alexander Olivas (olivas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-25 18:55:02

On 9/25/15 1:43 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
> 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.
>
Edward,
   I think that's an excellent suggestion.  I agree there are a number 
of libraries that aren't being maintained by the CMT, which maybe, 
probably, potentially either could be or could be Boost Library Official 
Maintainer candidates.  I spent a few hours about a week ago going 
through the Trac tickets and identifying candidates and did, in fact, 
find quite a few.  I plan to email the authors of those libraries and 
see if they could use a hand with maintenance and if there's anything I 
can do to help.
Thanks,
Alex.