Re: [Boost-users] iostreams: ceased devolopment?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] iostreams: ceased devolopment?
From: Christian Meesters (meesters_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-06-04 01:06:46

Hi,

I kind of anticipated this answer. And I would love to participate. 
However, job and family obligations make me very hesitant to take on 
more long-term tasks.

This being written, I would like to thank Juan for his offer. I myself 
will look into an issue or two. I do, however, think some of the 
unhandled pull requests effect the overall situation and the issues I 
perceived. Juan, if you start working as a BLOM on iostreams, feel free 
to contact me directly: I do not want to make the situation worse, yet 
once you gain some overview I can make fresh pulls, test, fix and make 
commits / pull requests sometimes.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to meet some of you in Berlin, later 
this year. But so far my boss is very reluctant to pay ...

Thanks a lot to all of you,
have a nice weekend,
Christian

On 06/03/2016 05:11 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
> On 6/3/16 4:47 AM, Christian Meesters wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that there are numerous issues in the bug list, regarding
>> boost iostreams. However, the current doc states Copyright 2004-2007 and
>> Tickets do not receive responses. (I even read: "(I tried e-mailing
>> Jonathan Turkanis directly, but the e-mail address on the website seems
>> to be not used anymore)" in ticket 7574.
>>
>> So, my question is: I anyone maintaining this library? If not: I doubt
>> that there is a good alternative, because iostreams just is convenient
>> to use and a selling point to for boost. It would be a pitty.
>>
>
> Maybe you'd like to take over the maintainence yourself?  Boost has a 
> program whereby you can become the official library maintainer (BLOM). 
> Since you depend upon the library and presumable have to monitor any 
> issues anyway you might want to consider this.  It would be a good way 
> to make a valuable contribution to Boost and C++ without having to 
> take on alot of work you're not already doing.  And being an official 
> maintainer of a well regarded boost library looks good on your resume 
> as well.  It's a good career move.
>
> Robert Ramey
>
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