On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Matt Calabrese via Boost
It is my privilege to announce that the Boost library count will once again be incremented as Paul Fultz II's library Fit has been accepted into Boost without conditions.
Thank you for taking your personal time to act as the review manager, it is plain to see that it is a lot of work. And congratulations to Paul and his new Boost library!
...my opinion is that this should be up to the author to choose whether or not he will change the name before it is added to boost and so I do not think it would be appropriate for us to strictly require or encourage such a change. If the author found the arguments against the name compelling, then he is welcome to change the name, but he should not feel obligated to do so.
As a quick note on that, we have several high quality and highly regarded libraries in Boost with names that may not directly tell users what the library is for. Based on their popularity, I do not believe that it has significantly negatively affected their usage or ability to be found. A library name also may be important to an author as a creative outlet and I think it would be... poor form us to force such a change in this particular case and in other cases unless there are very strong reasons (i.e. the name is overly or intentionally misleading or there are legal concerns).
This is very elegantly stated; I've had similar thoughts but could not find the words. I find it motivating to work with folks who take up this level of professionalism. Thanks