On Apr 1, 2024, at 3:17 PM, Vladimir Batov via Boost wrote:

On 2024-04-02 08:40, David Sankel via Boost wrote:

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Hi all, I have a few updates regarding Boost organization that I wanted to share with the wider community. First, as many of you are already aware, Vinnie Falco, Rene Rivera, and others from the C++ Alliance have set up a rival Boost website (boost.io vs. boost.org), Boost Twitter account (@BoostLibraries vs. @Boost_Libraries), and LinkedIn account. As this behavior is gravely injurious to the Boost community and amounts to a hostile takeover attempt, it has been decided to ban these individuals from the Boost mailing list for the foreseeable future. Libraries owned by these individuals will be removed from the main Boost distribution in future releases unless others volunteer to continue their maintenance. Additionally, we have initiated legal action to get these false Internet assets taken down under common trademark law. I hope with these steps we will finally put behind us the unfortunate events of the past few months. Second, we have decided to retire the Boost mailing list in favor of discord.boost.org to attract a newer demographic of Boost users and developers who prefer this medium to legacy mailing lists. The transition will not be immediate, but we hope to have it complete by April 1, 2025. I know some of you have been reluctant to this kind of change, but as Roy T Bennett once said, "change begins at the end of your comfort zone." Third, I am very pleased to announce that Microsoft has given the Boost Foundation a $850,000 grant as part of their Rust initiative. These funds will be used primarily to port Boost libraries to the Rust programming language. We will begin by porting recent additions to Boost, such as Boost.Parser, since some of the older libraries (e.g. Boost.SmartPtr) already have equivalents in the Rust standard library. The Boost community is invited to provide additional input as to the priority of various conversions. Finally, and with some regret, I must share the news that the Boost Foundation will be dissolving itself per popular request from Boost developers considering it (incorrectly) be concerned with only the C++Now conference. The Boost Foundation's assets will be held under trust by Robert Ramey and Niall Douglas until more appropriate governance is built. That's all for now. I hope y'all have a great week! -- David Sankel

Holy shit.

What day is today? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13259171/April-fools-best-worst-p... — Marshall

On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 12:37 AM Klemens Morgenstern via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

April the Second where I am.

Same. But I must say nice job to David Sankel, usually I hate those cringe pranks, but this starts quite believable so nice job.

"We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of." On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 6:35 PM Marshall Clow via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

On Apr 1, 2024, at 3:17 PM, Vladimir Batov via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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On 2024-04-02 08:40, David Sankel via Boost wrote:

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Hi all, I have a few updates regarding Boost organization that I wanted to share with the wider community. First, as many of you are already aware, Vinnie Falco, Rene Rivera, and others from the C++ Alliance have set up a rival Boost website (

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vs. boost.org), Boost Twitter account (@BoostLibraries vs. @Boost_Libraries), and LinkedIn account. As this behavior is gravely injurious to the Boost community and amounts to a hostile takeover attempt, it has been decided to ban these individuals from the Boost mailing list for the foreseeable future. Libraries owned by these individuals will be removed from the main Boost distribution in future releases unless others volunteer to continue their maintenance. Additionally, we have initiated legal action to get these false Internet assets taken down under common trademark law. I hope with these steps we will finally put behind us the unfortunate events of the past few months. Second, we have decided to retire the Boost mailing list in favor of discord.boost.org to attract a newer demographic of Boost users and developers who prefer this medium to legacy mailing lists. The

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will not be immediate, but we hope to have it complete by April 1,

boost.io transition 2025. I

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know some of you have been reluctant to this kind of change, but as Roy T Bennett once said, "change begins at the end of your comfort zone." Third, I am very pleased to announce that Microsoft has given the Boost Foundation a $850,000 grant as part of their Rust initiative. These funds will be used primarily to port Boost libraries to the Rust programming language. We will begin by porting recent additions to Boost, such as Boost.Parser, since some of the older libraries (e.g. Boost.SmartPtr) already have equivalents in the Rust standard library. The Boost community is invited to provide additional input as to the priority of various conversions. Finally, and with some regret, I must share the news that the Boost Foundation will be dissolving itself per popular request from Boost developers considering it (incorrectly) be concerned with only the C++Now conference. The Boost Foundation's assets will be held under trust by Robert Ramey and Niall Douglas until more appropriate governance is built. That's all for now. I hope y'all have a great week! -- David Sankel

Holy shit.

What day is today?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13259171/April-fools-best-worst-p...

— Marshall

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