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

The process is currently pretty simple. It's not that different than the standard open source model. Feel free to fork that repo and submit pull requests. Watch the repo and comment on development. For this particular library there are currently 23 open pull requests. Please feel free to comment on those pull requests as well. At some point BLOMs will be able to commit directly to the library, but for now PRs are the way to go. For more information about the BLOM program check out this page : http://beta.boost.org/community/official_library_maintainer_program.html I still need to update that site and get it merged to the live site, which hopefully will happen soon. Alex. On 06/03/2016 02:06 PM, Juan Ramírez wrote:

Alex,

I would like to start development on boost::iostreams.

I will start by forking the repo and checking the existing issues.

I'll appreciate any advice you could give in order to become a library maintainer.

Best Regards Juan

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Alex Olivas mailto:olivas@icecube.umd.edu> wrote:

On 06/03/2016 09:11 AM, 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

I'm working on potentially expanding the list of libraries that need maintainers. Looking at the github repo (https://github.com/boostorg/iostreams), the author did make a few commits last year. Others have also been maintaining it. Last commit was by Steve Watanabe.

Christian : If you're interested in becoming a BLOM, just let me know and I'll see if Jonathon is open to the idea. Alex.

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