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JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z | 2 Apr 17:55
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Intrusive library review results: library accepted

I'm pleased to announce that Ion Gaztañaga's Intrusive
library has been accepted into Boost. Prior to its
inclusion in Boost, the author is encouraged to address
several issues raised during the review, a summary of
which is given below.

A total of 14 full reviews were received, all of them
positive. Additionally, other members did not submit
full reviews but expressed their support for the library.
One Boost member raised some concerns about the
usefulness of the library; I hope these concerns have
been satisfactorily addressed by those review
participants who explained their current and potential
usage scenarios for Boost.Intrusive. This has shown
that more movitational material need to be provided
in the documentation introduction and in the form of
full-fledged examples.

Thank you to Ion Gaztañaga for all the hard work
involved in creating a Boost library, to Olaf Krzikalla,
who wrote the first versions of this piece of work,
and to all the participants in the review.

The list of issues to be addressed follows. Feel free
to comment if you detect some error or omission from
my part.

List of issues to be addressed prior to inclusion of
the Intrusive library into Boost:
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John Maddock | 11 Apr 18:25
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Re: [Boost-users] [boost][math toolkit] Formal Review today, April 11, through April 20

Matthias Schabel wrote:
> The formal review of the Math Toolkit, submitted by John Maddock,
> Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin, and Xiaogang Zhang, begins today, April
> 11 and ends April 20. The library and documentation may be downloaded
> from the Boost Vault:
>
> http://www.boost-consulting.org/vault/index.php?
> &direction=0&order=&directory=Math%20-%20Numerics
>
> The Math Toolkit is divided into three interrelated components :
>
> 1) a reasonably comprehensive set of statistical distributions
> 2) a set of high quality special functions
> 3) tools needed to implement special functions

I thought we had relegated the tools down to an implementation detail for 
now in order to keep the review manageable?  Of course all comments are 
welcome....

John. 

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Matthias Schabel | 11 Apr 17:54

[boost][math toolkit] Formal Review today, April 11, through April 20

The formal review of the Math Toolkit, submitted by John Maddock,  
Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin, and Xiaogang Zhang, begins today, April  
11 and ends April 20. The library and documentation may be downloaded  
from the Boost Vault:

http://www.boost-consulting.org/vault/index.php? 
&direction=0&order=&directory=Math%20-%20Numerics

The Math Toolkit is divided into three interrelated components :

1) a reasonably comprehensive set of statistical distributions
2) a set of high quality special functions
3) tools needed to implement special functions

Because this library subsumes a wide range of material, I anticipate  
that not all reviewers will feel comfortable reviewing the entirety  
of the library. In order to  expand the potential reviewer and  
increase overall participation, partial reviews of one or more of the  
three components described above are encouraged. As this is a  
primarily numerical library, quality of implementation, both  
correctness and efficiency, is critical. The authors have provided an  
extensive set of tests, but, as always, more eyes catch more bugs.  
Attention paid to these areas by reviewers is particularly welcome.

Your comments may be brief or lengthy, as long as they provide  
sufficient basis for the Review Manager to assess your evaluation of  
the library.  Relevant areas include interface/design,  
implementation, relevance to Boost, etc... If you identify problems  
along the way, please note if they are minor, serious, or showstoppers.
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Matthias Schabel | 13 Apr 05:45

Re: [boost] [math toolkit] Formal Review extended through April 27

There have been a number of requests to extend the review period for  
the Math Toolkit, submitted by John Maddock,  Paul Bristow, Hubert  
Holin, and Xiaogang Zhang due to conflicts with various meetings  
attended by a sizable number of potential reviewers of this library.  
For this reason, we have extended the review to run through April 27th.

Your friendly Review Manager -

Matthias

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John Phillips | 11 Apr 15:37
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[boost] [Review] Quantitative units review results


I’m happy to report that the quantitative units library developed by
Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe has been accepted for inclusion in
boost. My thanks to the authors for their submission, and to the
reviewers for all the work put into the reviews and discussions. A very
busy review period saw contributions ranging from small commentaries to
extensive reviews and discussions from Shaun Bloom, Martin Bonner, Paul
Bristow, Malte Clasen, Phil Endecott, Michael Fawcett, Ben FrantzDale,
Dave Hicherson, Lewis Hyatt, Janek Kozicki, Zach Laine, Eric Lemings,
Kevin Lynch, John Maddock, Michael Marcin, Scott McMurray, Noah Roberts,
Martin Schulz, Andrey Semashev, Dave Steffen, Matthias Troyer, K. R.
Walker, David Walthall, Gunter Winkler and Deane Yang. Thanks to you
again, since without your work the library would not become nearly as
good as it can be.

Given the scale of the review and the large number of issues
discussed, this summary will be rather long. As has been my policy in
the past, I will try to encapsulate the main ideas in the discussions
for ease of later reference. In the case of this library, there are also
some specific recommendations that should be addressed before the
library is added to the CVS. Some of them were fixed by the authors
during the review, and made available at that time, but for completeness
the completed issues will also be included in the report.

I’ll organize the report with some general discussion issues first,
followed by suggestions for improvement for the library (required issues
will be clearly marked and listed first), and since there was a vocal
minority who argued against inclusion, the report will end by
specifically addressing some of the points they raised in the review
discussion.
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Matthias Schabel | 28 Apr 18:31

[boost] [math toolkit] Review Ends

The review period for the proposed Math Toolkit by John Maddock and  
Paul Bristow is now over. I will be assembling responses and put  
together a synopsis over then next few days. Thanks to everyone who  
participated and submitted reviews.

Matthias
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Hartmut Kaiser | 30 Apr 16:52
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[SPAM:## 74%] [boost] [Review] The review of the Boost.Guid library starts today (April 30th)


Hi all,

The review of the proposed Boost Guid library written by Andy Tompkins
starts today (April 30th, 2007) and ends May 10th, 2007.

You can download the library here: http://www.boost-consulting.com/ 
vault/
(file guid_v7.zip).

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About the library:

Guid is a library providing an implementation of Globally Unique
Identifiers.  Guid's are used in many facets of programming, including
databases, networks, remote procedures, serializations, transactions,
identifying documents, and identifying classes.  This library is  
efficient
and is able to create name-based and random-based guids.

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Please always state in your review, whether you think the library  
should be
accepted as a Boost library!

Additionally please consider giving feedback on the following general
topics:

- What is your evaluation of the design?
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