Become a Library Maintainer
Hey All, This was just announced this week at CppCon (originally proposed at C++Now, by Robert Ramey). There's a new program and process to allow teams, who may be maintaining boost libraries internally, to become official maintainers. These are libraries that are currently being maintained by the Boost Community Maintenance Team (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance) : * Boost.ConceptCheck * Boost.DateTime * Boost.DisjointSet * Boost.DynamicBitset * Boost.Format * Boost.Function * Boost.Logic * Boost.MPL * Boost.PropertyMap * Boost.Signals (which is deprecated) * Boost.Tokenizer More information about the program can be found here: http://beta.boost.org/community/official_library_maintainer_program.html If you're interested in becoming a Boost Library Official Maintiner, please send me an email. Thanks, Alex.
On 9/25/2015 9:51 AM, Alex Olivas wrote:
Hey All, This was just announced this week at CppCon (originally proposed at C++Now, by Robert Ramey). There's a new program and process to allow teams, who may be maintaining boost libraries internally, to become official maintainers. These are libraries that are currently being maintained by the Boost Community Maintenance Team (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance) :
* Boost.ConceptCheck * Boost.DateTime * Boost.DisjointSet * Boost.DynamicBitset * Boost.Format * Boost.Function * Boost.Logic * Boost.MPL * Boost.PropertyMap * Boost.Signals (which is deprecated) * Boost.Tokenizer
More information about the program can be found here: http://beta.boost.org/community/official_library_maintainer_program.html
If you're interested in becoming a Boost Library Official Maintiner, please send me an email.
I am not at CppCon but Boost can also use library maintainers for a number of libraries that are not in CMT ( I am a CMT member ), but for which the current maintainer(s) apparently does not have any time to devote to maintaining the particular library. I can think of 4 libraries which fall into this category ( function_types, iterator, lambda, parameter ), but I suspect that there are many more. Therefore I would like to add that if anyone is interested in becoming a Boost Library Official Maintainer for a library which appears to be neglected, and which is not one of the CMT libraries, I think they should be encouraged to say so on this mailing list or the Boost developers mailing list.
On 9/25/15 1:43 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
On 9/25/2015 9:51 AM, Alex Olivas wrote:
Hey All, This was just announced this week at CppCon (originally proposed at C++Now, by Robert Ramey). There's a new program and process to allow teams, who may be maintaining boost libraries internally, to become official maintainers. These are libraries that are currently being maintained by the Boost Community Maintenance Team (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance) :
* Boost.ConceptCheck * Boost.DateTime * Boost.DisjointSet * Boost.DynamicBitset * Boost.Format * Boost.Function * Boost.Logic * Boost.MPL * Boost.PropertyMap * Boost.Signals (which is deprecated) * Boost.Tokenizer
More information about the program can be found here: http://beta.boost.org/community/official_library_maintainer_program.html
If you're interested in becoming a Boost Library Official Maintiner, please send me an email.
I am not at CppCon but Boost can also use library maintainers for a number of libraries that are not in CMT ( I am a CMT member ), but for which the current maintainer(s) apparently does not have any time to devote to maintaining the particular library. I can think of 4 libraries which fall into this category ( function_types, iterator, lambda, parameter ), but I suspect that there are many more.
Therefore I would like to add that if anyone is interested in becoming a Boost Library Official Maintainer for a library which appears to be neglected, and which is not one of the CMT libraries, I think they should be encouraged to say so on this mailing list or the Boost developers mailing list.
Edward, I think that's an excellent suggestion. I agree there are a number of libraries that aren't being maintained by the CMT, which maybe, probably, potentially either could be or could be Boost Library Official Maintainer candidates. I spent a few hours about a week ago going through the Trac tickets and identifying candidates and did, in fact, find quite a few. I plan to email the authors of those libraries and see if they could use a hand with maintenance and if there's anything I can do to help. Thanks, Alex.
On 25/09/2015 23:55, Alexander Olivas wrote:
On 9/25/15 1:43 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
On 9/25/2015 9:51 AM, Alex Olivas wrote:
Hey All, This was just announced this week at CppCon (originally proposed at C++Now, by Robert Ramey). There's a new program and process to allow teams, who may be maintaining boost libraries internally, to become official maintainers. These are libraries that are currently being maintained by the Boost Community Maintenance Team (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance) :
* Boost.ConceptCheck * Boost.DateTime * Boost.DisjointSet * Boost.DynamicBitset * Boost.Format * Boost.Function * Boost.Logic * Boost.MPL * Boost.PropertyMap * Boost.Signals (which is deprecated) * Boost.Tokenizer
Pool should probably be added to that list - it's unmaintained and the author is long since gone - could possibly do with deprecating actually :( John.
On 9/26/2015 3:29 AM, John Maddock wrote:
On 25/09/2015 23:55, Alexander Olivas wrote:
On 9/25/15 1:43 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
On 9/25/2015 9:51 AM, Alex Olivas wrote:
Hey All, This was just announced this week at CppCon (originally proposed at C++Now, by Robert Ramey). There's a new program and process to allow teams, who may be maintaining boost libraries internally, to become official maintainers. These are libraries that are currently being maintained by the Boost Community Maintenance Team (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance) :
* Boost.ConceptCheck * Boost.DateTime * Boost.DisjointSet * Boost.DynamicBitset * Boost.Format * Boost.Function * Boost.Logic * Boost.MPL * Boost.PropertyMap * Boost.Signals (which is deprecated) * Boost.Tokenizer
Pool should probably be added to that list - it's unmaintained and the author is long since gone - could possibly do with deprecating actually :(
I think the list of the libraries for CMT in the link above is out of date. I have 'pool', 'interval', 'rational', and 'uuid' in that list but I could be wrong.
On 9/26/15 12:52 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
On 9/26/2015 3:29 AM, John Maddock wrote:
On 25/09/2015 23:55, Alexander Olivas wrote:
On 9/25/15 1:43 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
On 9/25/2015 9:51 AM, Alex Olivas wrote:
Hey All, This was just announced this week at CppCon (originally proposed at C++Now, by Robert Ramey). There's a new program and process to allow teams, who may be maintaining boost libraries internally, to become official maintainers. These are libraries that are currently being maintained by the Boost Community Maintenance Team (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CommunityMaintenance) :
* Boost.ConceptCheck * Boost.DateTime * Boost.DisjointSet * Boost.DynamicBitset * Boost.Format * Boost.Function * Boost.Logic * Boost.MPL * Boost.PropertyMap * Boost.Signals (which is deprecated) * Boost.Tokenizer
Pool should probably be added to that list - it's unmaintained and the author is long since gone - could possibly do with deprecating actually :(
I think the list of the libraries for CMT in the link above is out of date. I have 'pool', 'interval', 'rational', and 'uuid' in that list but I could be wrong.
Thanks again for the feedback. Some of the libraries mentioned above made it onto my list with a cursory Trac ticket scan. Some of those didn't. I'll look into all of them though and email the author as well as the CMT. Thanks again, Alex.
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