On 19 Mar 2015 at 8:58, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Those libraries without active maintainers I would personally avoid as you're always going to be fighting to find someone willing to merge fixes.
Sounds like sage advice. As a Boost user, how do I know which is which?
Check the release notes to see if the changelog hasn't mentioned the maintainer in many years. Ditto for the commit log. Another good sign is how old the oldest unfixed bugs on the issue tracker are. By those measures, perhaps as many as 20% of Boost libraries are looking unmaintained or poorly maintained. Symptom of maturity. If a maintainer formally resigns or is known to be no longer available, the CMT can take over the library. However, most orphaned libraries right now are still technically maintained by their named maintainer even if we haven't see the maintainer in many years. The problem as always is finding new maintainer willing to sacrifice themselves sufficiently to be a good library maintainer. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/