Re: [boost] [review queue] Proposed new policy to enter the review queue

On 17/03/2017 13:19, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:

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Just looking at it from a more outside point of view I would say: The Boost website does not look sexy.

It looks quite old-fashioned, has a lot of text, but how that is structured is not easy to grasp by a short glimpse. And except for finding the current download and the list of current libraries it is quite hard to find particular information fast (if at all). (The GSOC)

You'll find plenty of this already reported in depth by me in posts past. I believe there was even a C++ Now talk or two by me on this topic. Most of current Boost infrastructure stopped being developed further from about 2009 onwards mainly due to a mix of lack of volunteers to do the work, and because any attempt to make any significant changes to infrastructure runs into major admin hurdles.

It'd be nice if stuff like this could be tracked in the (an?) issue tracker such that all discussion can be read in a single location.

Ah, but that's the chicken and egg problem: Infrastructure to track discussion of the lack of infrastructure. I will say that searching the mailing list archives and a bit of time yields much fruit, indeed I remember doing up a timeline of "Boost epochs" for my C++ Now talk. The infrastructure problem has been discussed endlessly for a very long time now. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/