Re: [gentoo-dev] Boost maintenance

[Christopher Harvey]

On 2010-12-12, at 3:19 PM, 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.
I use boost frequently and have a machine that can compile it quickly. Let me know if you want help. Boost is an important package to me. I will have free time after the 21st. (exams)
>
> Thanks for letting us know
>
> Regards,
> --
> Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
> Gentoo Linux Developer
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