I've been reviewing the Boost Formal Review queue as part of preparing my C++ Now presentation and I observe the following things: Observation 1. The following review submissions have not been updated by their authors in over two years and therefore count as unmaintained. Abandoned libraries before peer review are even more undesirable than abandoned official Boost libraries, I therefore suggest they be removed from the review queue until their authors bring them up to date: * Join (last update 2009) * Block pointer (last update: well, it's still in the SVN sandbox) * Singularity (last update 2011) * Extended Complex Numbers (last update 2012) * Array (last update 2012) * Countertree (last update 2012, I see a github import in 2013 but no new commits) * Process (last update 2012). This is a particularly useful library I have used myself in production code, and I see a number of mirrors of it on github each with varying patches and bug fixes. As a minimum, somebody needs to create a canonical github project for Process and merge the fixes from the many github copies. Otherwise, I'm sorry but this library needs to be considered abandoned otherwise, and removed from the review queue. It may be the case that the links on the review queue wiki page are simply out of date. If so, they need to be updated. Otherwise a purge of the queue is very desirable such that the queue accurately reflects ready to use new Boost libraries. Observation 2: Edit Distance (Algorithm) by Erik Erlandson shouldn't be in the queue. What he's done is to add a new algorithm to Boost.Algorithm, so the maintainer for Algorithm (Marshall?) should either merge his contribution or reject it as inappropriate or badly implemented. Failing that, Edit Distance should be spun into a standalone library instead of forking Algorithm. Right now it is supplied quite literally as a fork of the algorithm github. It should be a pull request, yet I don't see it in the pull requests for boostorg/algorithm, neither open nor closed. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/