Nick sent the following review to me at glenfe -at- boost.org.

From: Nick Thompson Date: On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 18:26 Subject: Fw: Boost Asset Stewardship Review To: Glen Fernandes

Vote: Transfer Boost Assets to the C++ Alliance

Association with library: Contributor to math, multiprecision, integer, random, and circular_buffer. Main contributions include black box optimization, quadrature, and statistics in Boost.Math.

Rationale:

My contributions to Boost have mainly been implementation of numerical algorithms. With each of these additions, years of future maintenance work is implied. Even with the heroic efforts of John Maddock, without the financial support of the C++ Alliance, these libraries would accumulate so many open tickets that our reputation would be badly damaged. Moreover, the utility of these libraries would be greatly reduced. For example, there would be no way we could support scipy's effort to expose Boost.Math to python-probably one of the most impactful uses of Boost to date. The risk of the project becoming completely defunk or slowly drifting into irrelevance without continued financial support is extremely high. So as long as the C++ Alliance is funding the maintenance, they should have the most say in the continued operation of the library.

Nick Thompson

Nick, thank you for contributing a review. - Glen