On 07/20/17 01:48, Alexander Zaitsev via Boost wrote:
Hello.
I think it's very important question: are there libraries without ACTIVE maintainers?
For what? Because without active maintainers we can't guarantee quality of the libraries.
Is Boost community sure, that for all Boost libraries there are active maintainers? E.g. see on Boost.Property_tree - on Github repo you can find a lot of "dead" pull requests without any answer.
There certainly are libraries without an active maintainer. I'm not sure if Boost.PropertyTree in particular can be considered as one since I can see that Sebastian Redl was actively committing to it until some time ago.
What should we do with it?
There is Community Maintenance Team (CMT) which maintains libraries without a dedicated maintainer. https://svn.boost.org/trac10/wiki/CommunityMaintenance