Dean Michael Berris wrote:
Question: does someone have to be a maintainer of an existing library (or author of one of the accepted libraries) to become a maintainer of an existing (orphaned?) library?
I think the current system of library "ownership" is a big problem for Boost. When the owner/maintainer is around, things work fine, but simply letting libraries rot because their owner moved on to other projects is not acceptable. We shouldn't advertise that they're of "Boost quality" when bugs are not being addressed (particularly when patches are provided, and all that has to be done is commit, watch the tests cycle, and merge -- users end up having to maintain these patches themselves against their local installation of Boost). Either unmaintained libraries should be removed from Boost, or anyone else willing to take responsibility for them should be allowed to do so. --Jeffrey Bosboom