Re: [boost] Build Boost Back Better

On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 4:41 PM Marshall Clow via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

On Apr 4, 2022, at 10:43 AM, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

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This came up before but it is worth mentioning again; in addition to a website update to make boost.org http://boost.org/ modern and

relevant, how do we feel

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about a transition to forum-based discussion instead of the mailing list?

Strongly opposed.

Also strongly opposed. I am now the maintainer of Boost for Fedora/CentOS/RHEL (Jonathan is transition out of the role). If Boost discussion moves to some forum that I have to chase down vs. just arriving alongside the rest of my upstreams (e.g. libstdc++) it's likely to get missed, so the quality of Fedora's distribution of Boost will likely suffer. The beauty of email is that

* the discussion *comes to me*; that I don’t have to go and check some website to see if there are new posts. * I have a local archive of the boost mailing lists going back to (checks…) 2009 at my fingertips. Pre-2009 requires a bit more work. * I can read (and search, and reply) with tools of my choice.

If you know of a forum-based discussion that offers those benefits, I’d love to hear about it.

— Marshall

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