On 1 Apr 2015 at 23:37, John Phillips wrote:
As a friendly reminder, one thing that leads to libraries stagnating on the queue is that no one volunteers to be the Review Manager for them. So, if you have some experience with Boost, and you are interested in one or more of the libraries on the queue, please contact the author, and Ron and me, and volunteer.
The authors pour substantial sweat and cogitation into these libraries, and will be overjoyed by your effort to help them move forward.
I still think that requiring anyone submitting a library for review must first act as review manager for another library would be a very wise strategy. I don't think it introduces the conflict of interest others think, and even if it does, movement is better than stagnation. Both myself and Antony have served as review manager for other libraries since submitting our libraries. The present situation is frustrating, though I'd imagine for Emil it is even worse seeing as he's been waiting a year longer, and yet has been doing all the work a library maintainer does except without the recognition or visibility of being included into Boost official. One of the things I was going to recommend at Robert's Boost 2.0 talk at C++ Now was that if a Boost ready library does not see a review after three years, and during that time it has remained maintained to the same quality as a Boost library, it should enter Boost regardless. Whilst peer review is important, it is impractical for very niche libraries, and where the quality of implementation, documentation, testing, maintainance and the maintainer are all up to Boost standards repeatedly demonstrated over a three year period then peer review is in my opinion dispensible. Similarly, if an existing library is not substantially maintained for three years, especially if its maintainer has vanished, it gets dropped from Boost regardless. Obviously notification of automatic addition and automatic removals would form part of the release notes for two preceding major releases. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/