Re: [Boost-users] Become a Library Maintainer

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Become a Library Maintainer
From: Alexander Olivas (olivas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-26 21:11:33

On 9/26/15 12:52 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 9/26/2015 3:29 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 25/09/2015 23:55, Alexander Olivas wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>>
>>
>> Pool should probably be added to that list - it's unmaintained and the
>> author is long since gone - could possibly do with deprecating 
>> actually :(
>
> I think the list of the libraries for CMT in the link above is out of 
> date. I have 'pool', 'interval', 'rational', and 'uuid' in that list 
> but I could be wrong.
>
Thanks again for the feedback.  Some of the libraries mentioned above 
made it onto my list with a cursory Trac ticket scan.  Some of those 
didn't.  I'll look into all of them though and email the author as well 
as the CMT.
Thanks again,
Alex.