Though this isn't news, I just came across it and it speaks to our common problem. (And it's of interest to boost users in general.) Note that ARM and Sun are even invested in stdcxx to some extent. From Apache's C++ Standard Library project <http://stdcxx.apache.org/status/2011-02.txt>: Stdcxx continues to be dormant. All but [1] committer have moved on to other projects. The only remaining committer (the VP of the project) is too busy with his day job to make even small changes, or to put out the long-awaited patch release, stdcxx 4.2.2. A number of users and organizations have been using the project and expressed interest in contributing to it. Several submitted patches, others have offered help with the project build and test infrastructure. Unfortunately, since no committer is available to review patches and guide the contributors through the ASF process to enable them to gain commit privileges there seems to be little hope of reviving stdcxx. A possible solution that would allow contributions to resume is to grant commit privileges to the handful of contributors who have already submitted some patches or expressed serious interest in contributing going forward. Another alternative is to move stdcxx to a repository outside of ASF such as SPI (http://www.spi-inc.org/) where interested developers could start committing changes on their own right away, without going through the "training" process. This seems to the preferred solution among at least some of the interested users. Are there any other options? Future plans: Unless the issue with contributions can be resolved in the next quarter I suggest to retire the project.