Edward Diener wrote:
Boost Libraries are all
1 Peer reviewed.
The initial submission is peer reviewed. After that there is no pre-commit review requirement (I said "requirement") in Boost. The submitter/maintainer then owns all decisions related to the library.
Would you like all decisions for a library made by a consensus of all commenters ?
I think the initial peer review and the maintainer ownership to form a kind of interesting tension, and maybe something worth thinking about.
Many boost libraries have no maintainer or no active maintainer, and upkeep struggles to actually get done. Am I wrong?
Yes, I believe you are wrong.
1) A few libraries have no active maintainer. 2) A maintenance group of people has been formed, to which anyone may join, for libraries which have no active maintainer.
Yes, the archives of the list can be read here: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.maint
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I doubt any of that matters.
Matters for what ?
I doubt any of it matters to the company not currently using Boost. I doubt any of the points would change their perspective/decision. Thanks, Steve.