There is no doubt that all SC members mean only good for Boost and C++ community, I know many of them as excellent developers who contributed a lot to Boost. However, other members of SC are not involved much, and some, including committee chair, do not seem to even have commit access to Boost. Again, I'm sure everybody meant only best, but something went wrong.
I've been keeping out of this thread and will continue to do so given my past history on this topic, but I had to say something in response to this above. The Boost steering committee chair is, bar none, one of the great pillars and foundation stones of the C++ community rivaling, perhaps surpassing, Bjarne himself in terms of sustained and deep contribution to the C++ ecosystem over such a long period. He has given of himself, repeatedly, in such quantity and without fanfare nor publicity in such a multitude of areas, that I find the request for him to resign beyond consideration. He has helped me personally with Boost GSoC over multiple years, found *tens* of thousands of dollars of needed funding when needed, he has gone out of his way to facilitate students and bring new blood into C++ and Boost, organised two of the major global C++ conferences for however many years, and he is such a nice guy in general. I may not always agree with Jon, but by God do I respect him and his judgements. I'm sorry, but calling for him to resign is **unacceptable**. Period. (and for your information, Jon does not have commit access to Boost **by choice** for various reasons not important to this thread. Not for any other reason, certainly nothing to do with lack of service to Boost) Niall