Re: [gentoo-dev] Boost maintenance

[ross smith]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 15:19, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:20:51PM +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> > A few months ago I spent some time bringing dev-libs/boost up to date
> > because it was blocking some Python issues. Sebastian Luther helped me
> > out (I more or less proxied from his overlay [2]). However, since I
> > have no intrinsic interest in Boost, I have found it hard to find time
> > to keep maintaining it (particularly since it's a pretty large
> > package, and far from my area of expertise). Sebastian also seems
> > slightly less available, though that might be due in part to my lack
> > of interest. In any case, I'm going to remove myself from the
> > maintainer-list. dev-zero is still in there, but AFAICT he hasn't
> > spent any time on it over the past six months or so. If anybody else
> > would like to pick it up (there are a lot of enthousiastic users in
> > bugzilla [1]), that would be swell!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dirkjan
> >
> > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320039
> > [2] https://github.com/few/few-s-gentoo-overlay
> >
>
> Hi Dirkjan,
>
> Few of my packages depend on boost therefore I don't want to see this
> package rotten on the tree. However, I do not have the hardware to
> perform any kind of build testing to this package because it requires a
> significant amount of resources during compilation phase. I will add
> myself on metadata.xml but I will try to find a couple of users to help
> me maintain it and become proxy maintainer for them.
>
> Thanks for letting us know
>
> Regards,
> --
> Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
> Gentoo Linux Developer
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I have a couple machines that can build it, and also have an interest in
boost for some other software I work on.  I'd be happy to help,  just need
to know what needs to be done.

-Ross