On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Alexander Lamaison
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What you are proposing is much more extensive and all encompassing than anything I had in mind. While many of your points are well taken, I see the vast diversity of the Boost libraries and their maintainers as a great strength, and to me that demands diversity in how we handle maintenance. Furthermore, we are convulsed at the moment with one major transition, so I personally don't think it is the right time to totally rework how we do maintenance. The Community maintained libraries would start out as a very small piece of Boost. It would affect only a few boosters, and those that were affected would mostly be different from the set of release managers and library maintainers who are tied up in the move to git and modular boost. We can try it out to see if it works before speculating as to what portion of Boost libraries might eventually end up community maintained. In the meantime, you could approach the steering committee to see if they have any interest in more sweeping changes. Thanks for your interest, --Beman