Vinnie Falco wrote:
Clearly, a website update is necessary
Why, exactly? I mean, how many people visit the website but then decide not to use Boost because they don't like the font?
how do we feel about a transition to forum-based discussion instead of the mailing list?
I think the question we need to ask first is "where have the participants gone?". Preferably quantified. One place I've noticed is that people go to the std:: mailing lists with their ideas and bypass Boost.
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Yeah, that's another place some people have gone. Compared to just publishing your project on github, what does Boost add? Github has the advantage that you don't need to endure a review and maybe be forced to change things! And, as John Maddock has pointed out, Boost has already adopted github and some of what used to happen on this list now happens there. Robert Ramey wrote:
you might want to bring this up in a meeting at C++Now
That's another place that some people have gone. Personally I think it's important for Boost not to be "two-tier" i.e. those with travel budgets and those without. Regards, Phil.