Boost board update on website, twitter, etc.
Hi all, We're overdue for a Boost website/Twitter status update as it relates to the board. In summary: - The board approved pointing boost.org to C++ Alliance servers running the new website once it's ready - The board is accepting a contribution from the C++ Alliance to upgrade the @Boost_Libraries Twitter account to premium, which simplifies delegation of credentials for posts - The C++ Alliance made their @BoostLibraries Twitter account private which means only its subscribers will see its posts. The website decision was made in the 3/28 board meeting which followed the 3/13 meeting where several on boost-dev were invited to the discussion. You can read the minutes here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zMKUX3nfdcOXT6nUIU4M_YRlCU4ywGoG40ouo3IK... . The website decision was not easy. There wasn't consensus in boost-dev nor on the board itself (it passed with 3 in favor, 2 against, and 1 abstention). However, a needed decision was made and I invite everyone to rally behind it and support its success. I want to thank Vinnie and those working for the C++ Alliance for their major Boost website contributions. I want to acknowledge the reviewers, active Boost authors, review managers, folks making releases, bug reporters, infrastructure maintainers, and the many others that contribute to Boost in various ways. These people constitute the Boost libraries project whose consensus is the primary means of community-wide decision making. The Boost Steering Committee (and now the Boost Foundation) was created by the Boost libraries project to make such decisions *only in the rare case of community deadlock*. While the Boost board is more than happy to provide feedback and financial support for Boost libraries initiatives, the board is taking its direction from the project and not the other way around. Thanks everyone for your passionate interest in Boost and I look forward to what comes next! David, Boost Foundation Chair
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 5:53 AM David Sankel via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
I want to thank Vinnie and those working for the C++ Alliance for their major Boost website contributions.
I appreciate the kind words. All, note that the new website still needs work. Joaquin Munoz has graciously stepped in as project leader to close the gap and get it to the finish line (or is that the starting line, hmm...). The development team has been busy working on the open issues which you can see here: https://github.com/boostorg/website-v2/issues https://github.com/boostorg/website-v2-docs/issues Several folks have been very active in opening issues, Andrey in particular (thanks!) and of course we welcome anyone to hammer on the new site and report any new problems. Even after going live there will still be quite a lot to do so this will be an ongoing project, please set expectations accordingly. Thanks
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David Sankel
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Vinnie Falco