Re: [boost] Boost Governance?

On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 3:23 PM René Ferdinand Rivera Morell wrote:

On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 12:26 PM Glen Fernandes via Boost wrote:

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Rene wrote:

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It's now been at least a year since Boost switched from the Software Freedom Conservancy to the Boost Foundation for its governance organization.

13:14 <glenfe> @grafikrobot The Software Freedom Conservancy never governed the Boost C++ Libraries, nor did the Boost Steering committee, nor does the Boost Foundation. Only the Boost community does that. 13:15 <grafikrobot> Hopefully you'll clarify that on the dev list.

i.e. The "Boost Steering Committee"[1] became "Boost Foundation"[2].

[1] https://sites.google.com/a/boost.org/steering/home [2] https://sites.google.com/a/boost.org/steering/boost-foundation

It still deals with the C++Now conference, providing the mailing lists, hosting, etc. But any decision making and governance of the Boost libraries is still the domain of the Boost community (i.e. you, me, and the other Boost library authors and maintainers).

How does that reconcile with the statement of purpose on the web site:

The role of the Board is to be able to commit the organization to specific action either where funds are required or where consensus cannot be reached, but a decision must be made.

That, at minimum, implies some form of control and hence governance.

It's probably like the "Boost is moving to CMake" statement, but I can't remember how much control and governance that carried... Glen