On 14.03.2017 17:53, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:
"Only those who have managed a boost review can expect their library submissions to be to be reviewed."
The qualifications needed to write a boost-grade library and the qualifications needed to manage a review aren't the same. I don't think it's sensible to couple the two tasks in the suggested way. But I'm still concerned that most of the replies to the OP are far too short-sighted: While I can feel the pain of a developer waiting for a review, I don't think anything can be done about this, on a strictly administrative level. I'd actually be curious to see how many of the existing Boost libraries are actively being maintained or developed. Far too often a library managed to get through the review process, only to be orphaned later on because the original author has lost interest and or there wasn't enough critical mass in the user/developer community to keep the project going. In an ideal world, a library would start its life within an existing community of users and developers, so finding reviewers (including someone willing to manage the review process) shouldn't be hard. In contrast, if a library is stalled in the review queue, perhaps that hints at there not being enough interest to [use, develop, review] it ? So who would be helped if the review process was accelerated artificially ? What if the criteria for acceptance (into Boost) would be changed such that an active user and developer community was a prerequisite, as a way to predict the project's livelihood ? Again, this would work best if the library would be much more autonomous, so there was much less integration work required to bring a library on board. Boost wouldn't subsequently have to care for maintenance of the library. If a given library would be unmaintained for an extended period of time, it would simply be removed from Boost. No single person (or group of persons) would have to be responsible for certain tasks involving all of Boost (including but not limited to: building, testing, releasing), making the overall (umbrella) organization much simpler to manage and contribute to. Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...