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Boost.Align review announcement
by Ahmed Charles 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Hi everyone, The review of Boost.Align by Glen Fernandes is scheduled from Friday, April 11th to April 20th. Source: http://github.com/glenfe/align Documentation: http://glenfe.github.io/align Description: This library provides function align for implementations which do not have the C++11 standard library align function available.It provides allocation functions aligned_alloc and aligned_free as their functionality is not yet available in the C++ standard library. They use platform specific functions, if available, or use standard library functions in conjunction with align.It provides C++ allocators, class templates aligned_allocator and aligned_allocator_adaptor, which respect alignment. The first uses aligned_alloc and aligned_free while the second uses the allocator in conjunction with align.It also provides function is_aligned to test the alignment of a pointer. Rationale: C++11 added the ability to specify increased alignment (over-alignment) for class types. Unfortunately, ::operator new allocation functions, new expressions, and the default allocator, std::allocator, do not support dynamic memory allocation of over-aligned data. The aligned_alloc function can be used in place of ::operator new to specify the alignment of the memory allocated.The aligned_allocator class template can be used in place of std::allocator as an alignment-aware default allocator.The aligned_allocator_adaptor class template can be used to adapt any allocator into an alignment-aware allocator. Notes: The functionality provided by this library addresses needs in existing Boost libraries as well. Boost.SmartPtr has its own implementation of align, and Boost.Log and Boost.Interprocess have their own implementations of aligned_alloc and aligned_free. Boost List Discussion: http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2014/02/211723.php Review Manager: Ahmed Charles

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[GSoC 14] Request community to rank proposals
by Niall Douglas 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Dear Boost Community, The Google Summer of Code 2014 proposals for Boost are in, and we would deeply appreciate the community's help in ranking the proposals according to merit before the 1st of April. To vote, the process is easy: 1. Go to this page https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 and click the "Log in" button under Mentors and Administrators. 2. Now click "Create Profile" on the same page. Note that even if you registered last year, you must register again in 2014. Fill in the form. Note that after submitting it drops you at "Edit Profile", which is confusing. 3. Click "My Dashboard", then "Connect with organisations". 4. Choose "Boost C++ Libraries". 5. In the message box, write this: "I am a member of the Boost community and the email(s) I normally post to boost mailing lists with is <email>" filling in the email address(es) you normally use to post to boost mailing lists. This lets us verify that you are indeed a long standing member of the Boost community. 6. Once we approve your request, you will get an email with the subject "Welcome as organisation member". You can now return to the Dashboard on the GSoC website where there will be a new item "Proposals". 7. Work your way through as many of the 42 proposals as you can. You can score them using the stars at the bottom of each proposal page, taking care to read any comments by the mentors and students if present. PLEASE try to rank some of the lowest scored proposals, every year we get a lot of people who only rank the top five and don't bother with the rest. Try to score on the basis of (i) proposal quality and your best estimate of the student's capability (ii) if the student came early to the mailing lists to ask for help writing the proposal (the mentors who helped them with their proposals have usually indicated this in the private comments) (iii) usefulness/appropriateness of the feature or work being proposed. Remember a good GSoC is more about getting promising new engineers into Boost and C++ than necessarily getting code to pass Boost peer review in a single summer. 8. Optional: If a proposal looks especially great to you and you feel able to mentor a student this year, please slide the "wish to mentor" button. Just because a proposal already has willing mentors does NOT mean you should not add yourself - we have at least two mentors with many attached very highly ranked proposals and we really don't want to have to reject an outstanding proposal just because we can't find the mentors for it as no mentor can realistically mentor more than two projects simultaneously. As you know, Google Summer of Code is usually worth $35,000 - $50,000 to Boost each year, and a successful GSoC raises our visibility and reputation in the wider open source community. Our thanks to you in advance for taking the time to vote. Niall Douglas Boris Schäling --- Boost C++ Libraries Google Summer of Code 2014 admin https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2014

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