On 03/12/2022 02:02, David Sankel via Boost wrote:
Hi all,
At C++Now this year I gave a talk on the status of Boost and presented this graph which illustrated the trend of Boost mailing list participation.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ocX8Dh4B98gxfXJTWOriaEU1tmJN61M4RfjU...
I'm interested to hear your opinions as to what happened over that time period to cause such a trend. There's truth to the claim that this question is being asked of the wrong people; those who left, stopped participating, or would otherwise start probably have good insight. Nevertheless, I think it would be interesting for us to brainstorm on this.
Good question! I do wonder how much we've all disappeared off into our own Github silos, and discussion is now "library specific" held on each repro's account? I know that a lot of issues for Math/Multiprecision that would previously have been discussed around here, are now taking place on Github rather than here. We may well be missing something: to pick one example, anyone have any strong feelings on the use of Concepts within Boost libraries: https://github.com/boostorg/math/pull/848 ? I use this as a for-instance, not to hijack this topic BTW! John.