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Stjepan Rajko | 1 Nov 20:22
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[signals2][review] The review of the signals2 library (formerly thread_safe_signals) begins today, Nov 1st

Hello all,

The review for the Signals2 library (formerly known as
thread_safe_signals) submitted by Frank Mori Hess begins today (Nov
1st) and is scheduled to end on Nov 10th.  I would like to thank Franz
Alt, Terry Golubiewski, Doug Gregor, Ravikiran Rajagopal and Andrew
Webber for making this review possible by committing to reviewing the
library.

How to submit a review:
--------

As usual, EVERYONE is welcome to participate in the review discussions
and to submit a review.   I strongly encourage participation from
reviewers that would examine the library from a purely user standpoint
(commenting on the interface and / or the documentation), as well as
reviewers that would be willing to look into the details of the
implementation (i.e., you don't have to focus on both).

Here are some questions you might want to answer in your review (feel
free to skip those that don't apply to your analysis):

    * What is your evaluation of the design?
    * What is your evaluation of the implementation?
    * What is your evaluation of the documentation?
    * What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
    * Did you try to use the library? With what compiler? Did you have
any problems?
    * How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A
quick reading? In-depth study?
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Beman Dawes | 3 Nov 13:26
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Boost 1.37.0 Release Notice

Boost 1.37.0 has been released and is available from SourceForge. See
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/

This release includes one new library: Proto: Expression template
library and compiler construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded
languages, from Eric Niebler.

Updated libraries include Asio, Circular Buffer, Dynamic Bitset, Hash,
Interprocess, Intrusive, Math Type, Traits, and Unordered.

The release managers were Beman Dawes, Daniel James, Eric Niebler, and
Rene Rivera.

The web site should be updated soon to reflect the new release. If you
can't wait, see http://beta.boost.org now!

--Beman Dawes
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dan marsden | 9 Nov 20:42
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Boostcon 2009 call for sessions

3rd annual Boost Conference 2009
Aspen CO, USA, May 3-9, 2009, www.boostcon.com
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Call for participation
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Promising to be the main face-to-face event for all things Boost 
(www.boost.org), BoostCon'09 opens the door to your C++ future. From using 
the Boost libraries to writing and maintaining them, from evangelizing to 
deploying Boost within your organization, from infrastructure and process 
to vision and mission, and from TR1  to TR2 and the new C++0x Standard, 
BoostCon brings together the sessions, the colleagues, and the inspiration 
to support your work with C++ and Boost in particular for the next year.

To reflect the breadth of the Boost community, the conference includes 
sessions aimed at two constituencies: Boost end-users and hard-core Boost 
library and tool developers. The program fosters interaction and engagement 
within and across those two groups, with an emphasis on hands-on, 
participatory sessions.

Session topics
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* Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:
* General tutorial sessions introducing one or more Boost libraries
* In-depth sessions on using specific libraries
* Case studies on using Boost
* Experts panels
* Advanced sessions on implementation techniques used within Boost 
  libraries
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Stjepan Rajko | 20 Nov 06:25
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[signals2][review] signals2 review results

** signals2 review results **

I am pleased to announce that the signals2 library by Frank Mori Hess
is accepted into boost, pending some conditions outlined below are
met.  I would like to thank the author for his work on this library,
and for his very responsive participation in the review.  I would also
like to thank Franz Alt, Jean-Cristophe Benoist, Vicente Botet, Fabio
Fracassi, Johan Råde, Ravikiran Rajagopal, Andrew Webber, and Jesse
Williamson for submitting reviews, and Terry Golubiewski, Michael
Marcin, and Hansjörg for additional comments regarding the library.

There were 5 votes cast for the acceptance of this library, and 3
against accepting the library at this time.  The reviewers that were
against immediate inclusion of signals2 suggested that the library
should be accepted when several stated problems are addressed
adequately.

Overall, the library was regarded as a much needed thread-safe
successor of Boost.Signals.  Those that have tried switching from
Boost.Signals to signals2 have found the switch rather painless (at
least in the cases that don't involve the Boost.Signals trackable
interface), and some reported using signals2 and/or its previous
versions in production code.  Some additional improvements that were
mentioned are an automatic connection management system based on
shared_ptr, and a change of namespace (which avoids problems with QT).

Additionally, many requests were made for improvements in the
documentation, as well as some improvements in thread-related testing
and some possible changes to the interface.  Frank has addressed many
of the issues in the review, and in many cases offered concrete steps
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Hartmut Kaiser | 24 Nov 01:13
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[Review] UUID library (mini-)review starts today, November 23rd

Hi all,

The mini-review of Andy Tompkins UUID library starts today, November 23rd
2008, and will end on November 30th. 
I really hope to see your vote and your participation in the discussions on
the Boost mailing lists!

The library can be downloaded from the vault here (it's the file
uuid_v13.zip in the topmost directory): http://tinyurl.com/6xx28b

The initial review of the UUID library ended with a provisional acceptance
(read here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/27774/). 

This mini review is meant to allow for a final decision after looking at the
changed parts of the library. Here is a list of things fixed and changed:

- fixed the licensing issues revealed by the initial review
- fixed the security vulnerability revealed by the initial review
- renamed to uuid, moved all classes, functions, etc. to namespace
boost::uuids
- implemented sha1 hash function (thus no license problem)
- new class basic_uuid_generator to create random-based uuids.  The random
number generator is no longer hard coded.  It can use any random number
generator, default is boost::mt19937
- implemented a good seed function for random number generators
- all functions are now reentrant, all classes are as thread safe as an int
and the library is no longer dependent on Boost.Thread

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Ronald Garcia | 25 Nov 22:44
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Review Wizard Report for November 2008

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Review Wizard Status Report for November 2008
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News
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May 7 - Scope Exit Library Accepted - Awaiting SVN

May 17 - Egg Library Rejected

August 14 - Boost 1.36 Released
    New Libraries: Accumulators, Exception, Units, Unordered Containers

August 27 - Finite State Machines Rejected

September 10 - Data Flow Signals Rejected

September 30 - Phoenix Accepted Conditionally

November 3 - Boost 1.37 Released
    New Library: Proto

November 10 - Thread-Safe Signals Accepted - Awaiting SVN

November 25 - Globally Unique Identifier Library mini-Review in progress

Older Issues
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Hartmut Kaiser | 1 Dec 02:14
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[Review] UUID library (mini-)review ends today, November 30rd

Hi all,

the review of Andy Tompkins' UUID library ends today, November 30th.
Nevertheless, it's still possible to submit a review for at least a week, as
I'm not going to have time for the analysis of the review before Christmas.

Thanks to all of you who submitted a review.

Regards Hartmut
Review Manager

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Jeff Garland | 1 Dec 13:59

[boost] [review][constrained_value] Review of Constrained Value Library begins today

Hi all,

The review of the Robert Kawulak's Constrained Value library begins  
today December 1, 2008, and will end on December 10th -- I will be  
the review manager.  Please post reviews to the developer list.

Here's the library synopsis:

The Boost Constrained Value library contains class templates useful  
for creating constrained objects. A simple example is an object  
representing an hour of a day, for which only integers from the range  
[0, 23] are valid values.

       bounded_int<int, 0, 23>::type hour;
       hour = 20; // OK
       hour = 26; // exception!

Behavior in case of assignment of an invalid value can be customized.  
The library has a policy-based design to allow for flexibility in  
defining constraints and behavior in case of assignment of invalid  
values. Policies may be configured at compile-time for maximum  
efficiency or may be changeable at runtime if such dynamic  
functionality is needed.

The library can be downloaded from the here:
http://rk.go.pl/f/constrained_value.zip

The documentation is also available online here:
http://rk.go.pl/r/constrained_value
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