On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 9:25 PM René Ferdinand Rivera Morell via Boost-users wrote:

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 1:21 PM Vinnie Falco via Boost-users

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On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 10:17 AM Marshall Clow via Boost-users

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Release 1.86.0 of the Boost C++ Libraries is now available. https://x.com/BoostLibraries/status/1823783597792485433

https://mastodon.social/@boostlibs/112961869014911731 https://bsky.app/profile/boostlibs.bsky.social/post/3kzp72khfry2x https://cohost.org/boostlibs/post/7295376-boost-1-86-has-arriv https://www.linkedin.com/posts/boostlibs_boostcpp-cpp-cplusplus-activity-722...

FWIW, the only "social network" I use to be updated about releases, beside this ML of course, is GitHub> Watch> Custom> Releases. I have dozens (if not hundreds) of such watches, and just added one for https://github.com/boostorg/boost, for good measure, despite getting the ML notices (and why I didn't have one before). Most such email release notices are not very informative, many with no specific information at all, some a short list, and some are awesome, like the Bun.sh ones, that systematically link to a blog post with a very detailed information. If wanting to improve Boost communication, then please have a good description of what's in the GitHub release, and/or a link to a blog post Bun-like with full details. My $0.02. --DD

On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 10:23 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:

On 8/16/24 11:07, Dominique Devienne via Boost wrote:

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FWIW, the only "social network" I use to be updated about releases, beside this ML of course, is GitHub> Watch> Custom> Releases.

You can subscribe to [...] RSS

Sure, thanks. But two remarks on that: 1) I gave up on RSS when Google retired its client (i.e. years ago). 2) This is Boost specific. While GitHub watches are cross-projects. My point was to try to make the best of GitHub, that's all. --DD

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If wanting to improve Boost communication, then please have a good description of what's in the GitHub release, and/or a link to a blog post Bun-like with full details. My $0.02. --DD

The subscribers to the mailing list are already pretty well informed.

The purpose of social media postings is to raise the visibility of the project for people who haven't become Boost users yet, or for those people who might have stopped using Boost a while ago and may want to consider returning as the project has undergone significant improvements..

Thanks

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To Dominique's point right now the release notes listed on Boost-1.86 here: https://github.com/boostorg/boost/releases are "Update asio from master". It would take little additional effort to replace the head commit message with the link to the release notes. The 300 watchers and nearly 7k people with stars who will see that a new release was published on their GitHub feed are not all here on the mailing list. Matt