On 27/06/2024 19:45, John Maddock via Boost wrote:
On 26/06/2024 23:32, Kristen Shaker via Boost wrote:
Recently, we became aware of a letter that was circulated to the Boost developer community. The Boost Foundation Board of Directors have penned the following note in response to that letter.
I suspect like most folks I've being trying to studiously stay out of the politics.
I think it unfortunate that the Boost Foundation chose to respond with yet another escalation. Somebody needs to stop escalating.
I only note that the new website is now looking very good and certainly deserves to made use of, but I would also hate to see Boost fragment in any way.
I agree with John that now that the new Boost website is pretty much done it seems wasteful and unnecessary to throw it away. Surely there is a way here - given we are all supposed to be adults - to get this over the line?
So... while I'm hoping it's not too late for you all to be sending each other flowers, perhaps it is also a good time to discuss who should hold the boost.org domain? As long as Beman was alive that was a no-brainer, and the Boost Foundation seemed like a logical successor. But given that Kristen is only being introduced to us now, perhaps it's focus is now too much elsewhere? If so that would be a shame, and should not be taken as meaning the Alliance would be a better owner either. And it should clearly not be a single person (far too mortal). So it's is a puzzle for sure.
The Boost Foundation and all its many predecessors have had a long history of appointing people who would be unknown to most, if not all, the Boost library developers. There were originally good reasons for that - we here us devs did the dev work, and the non-dev side of things did the admin, money, training, conference, legal and infrastructure stuff. For obvious reasons, there was historically not a lot of overlap as most devs don't much care for non-dev stuff. I guess the question becomes has there been a material change, and should there be a material change? How would the devs like the non-dev stuff to be implemented? My vote would be for the C++ Alliance and Boost Foundation to figure something out. After all, they are supposed to be adults and supposedly both do - in the end - have similar goals (supporting Boost). Niall