On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Dean Michael Berris <mikhailberis@gmail.com> wrote:
About Boost Libraries being forked, I don't think that's inherently a bad idea -- especially since there's already a number of Boost libraries that seem "unmaintained"
I'd much rather see maintenership of these libraries transferred to new people, just to avoid fragmentation.
I agree with you, but getting the current maintainers -- who are technically, not maintaining the libraries -- to yield maintenance at least to the whole community (or to a larger set of contributors) hasn't been "proven" yet at least for Boost. I know Boost.Thread had been taken over successfully before, that precedent required having to track down the (sole) original maintainer, getting him to agree and yield to a specific person, sounds like a lot of work compared to just people clicking a button to "fork". :D -- Dean Michael Berris deanberris.com