On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 10:33 AM David Sankel via Boost
As I'm putting together a timeline of related events and discussions I have serious reservations.
It isn't obvious how that will be helpful other than finger-pointing and blame-laying, which in my opinion is counterproductive. Louis already conveyed that his communications might not have been clear, so we are willing to concede this point to you. That said, our position is explained now and the website is almost ready to be published so for the third time we are asking, how can we make the best of the work that we have done and figure out a mutually agreeable solution?
Do we want to hand over control of the Boost mailing lists and website to Vinnie? ...I have serious reservations.
"hand over control" sounds exaggerated. The counter-proposal, described in a previous message and repeated here is that The Boost Foundation retains control of the boost.org domain and points the DNS record to our servers running the new website. If at any time you don't like it, then simply point it back to the old server containing the old site, which you control. It is a reasonable system. The people who did the work and paid the costs will execute on their vision explained here: https://cppalliance.org/boost/2023/05/09/New-Website.html https://cppalliance.org/boost/2023/05/08/Future-of-Boost.html Meanwhile the Boost Foundation gets a veto through control of the domain. We hope before any veto actions, that the mailing list is consulted first, as we consulted the list repeatedly to better adapt to the needs of the Boost community. A reasonable question to ask would be, what would it be like where The C++ Alliance maintains and administers the website? Can Vinnie be trusted? Well, I had full access to the Boost X (formerly Twitter) account for almost a year, via the now-discontinued TweetDeck service. During that time I was responsible for 80% of all the posts made to the account. Many of them had images commissioned by our artist, which we paid for. We are happy to do it, as tweets with images get triple the engagement. I asked for permission before every post. Now we have 80% less tweets, because losing access to TweetDeck has sent the message that I can't be trusted. This doesn't feel good and since I am not being paid to contribute to Boost (quite the opposite) I am not particularly motivated to keep tweeting. Another reasonable question to ask would be, what is it like to request services and maintenance from The C++ Alliance? We don't need to guess. Samuel Darwin has been helping the release managers by updating and maintaining the release scripts, administering the infrastructure, and generally providing a continuation of the services that were formerly provided by Ciere Consulting. We also added Drone CI pull requests to all repositories, and provided GitHub Actions scripting support. Sam also provided ongoing consultation and support directly to the Boost Foundation for IT tasks. We note that The Boost Foundation has just today revoked credentials that Sam had access to for the boost.org DNS account. Why? I ask again, how can we come to a mutually agreeable solution? Thanks