on Thu May 10 2012, Nathan Ridge <zeratul976-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
From: mjklaim@gmail.com
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
My definition of a "Booster" is anyone who has been participating in Boost, and the admittedly vague definition of "participating" is very
broad, and goes far beyond library authors.
Wouldn't it be a problem for the C++ commitee? My understanding it that the mailing list is voluntarily kept closed to avoid a lot of problem like trolling or out-of-scope subjects that occur naturally in open communities (even boost). I might be wrong, I didn't read any official info about this.
But allowing this large definition of boosters to be able to mail the C++ committee mailing list would then open a breach for them, wouldn't it?
Not everyone agrees with the closed nature of the committee mailing lists.
And there's some indication that said nature may be changing. Stay tuned... -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com