Re: shout out to Gennaro Prota

Robert,

Thanks for writing this. Receiving credit from the person who built
Serialization means a lot, and I'm glad Gennaro's work on the backlog is
getting noticed.

Thank you,
Harry Bott
[email protected]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2026, 2:58 PM Robert Ramey via Boost <[email protected]>
wrote:

> A few weeks ago Gennaro took over the maintenance of the Boost
> Serialization Library.  I've been following his work on addressing a
> large backlog of issues and PRs.  The reason there's such a backlog is
> that many/most of them are quite subtle and many are edge cases. My
> handling of these was to spend a little time on them and conclude -
> whoops this is non-trivial - I'll have to address it later when I have
> time.  My assessment hasn't changed.  But I'm really impressed with how
> many he has addressed in a serious and definitive manner.  I'm very
> optimistic about the future of the Boost Serializaton library.  I never
> imaged that it wouldn't be standardized by now.  Now I see why - Here's
> to another 25 years of the Boost Serialization library.  Congratulations
> to Gennaro for taking this on and being so successful at it.
>
> Robert Ramey
>
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