Boost.PropertyTree is back in the saddle! Last month I took over the maintenance of the Boost Property Tree library. This library is in ubiquitous use but has been without a full time maintainer for some time. There was a backlog of commits on develop that had not made it to master for the boost releases. This is changing in upcoming 1.76 release. Property Tree PRs and issues will get more attention going forward. In addition, Property Tree has gained CI courtesy of GitHub Actions. The te...

History This is my first entry on the C++ Alliance web site. I am happy to have been invited to join the organization. I first talked to Vinnie on Slack, and was surprised to find that he is practically a neighbor. So we got in touch, had breakfast together, talked about C++ and life, the universe and everything. We became friends, he took care of our cats when we flew to Europe (pre-Covid), and I brought back some Rakia (next time I’ll bring him some of my father’s home-made stuff!) (Boos...

Dmitry’s January Update In January 2021 I started working on improving Boost.JSON for The C++ Alliance. The time during this first month was mostly spent on getting familiar with the project, particularly with its list of issues on GitHub. It turns out, half of the open issues are related to documentation. For example, the section about conversions might need a rewrite, and related entries in the reference need to provide more information. There should be more examples for parsing customiza...

A year in the C++ Alliance January marks one year since I joined the C++ Alliance and started maintaining the Boost.Beast library. It’s a pleasure to work with interesting and fun people who are passionate about writing C++, and in particular good C++. During the past year I have spent some time attending ISO WG21 meetings online as an alternate representative of the C++ Alliance. Prior to joining the organisation, during my life as a developer I always felt that the standards committee...

Overview A message currently appears (mid-January 2021) at the top of the travis-ci.org website. “Please be aware travis-ci.org will be shutting down in several weeks, with all accounts migrating to travis-ci.com. Please stay tuned here for more information.” The transition has not been a smooth one, with long, disruptive delays occurring on existing builds, and lack of clear communication from the company. Many were unaware of the impending change. Some informative posts about the topic a...