We need review manager volunteers for most of the libraries in the review queue. If your interested, let us know by replying to this thread. Preferably, you would have a background in the problem domain, a regular contributer to the boost mailing list, but no association with the library. Some of the libraries have been waiting patiently for a volunteer for some time now. The review schedule is available here: http://www.boost.org/more/formal_review_schedule.html . You can read the "review manager" requirements at the following link: http://www.boost.org/more/formal_review_process.htm Most of the libraries are located at the Boost Sandbox Vault, located here: http://boost-consulting.com/vault/ Maintainers of the Review Queue: Ronald Garcia (garcia (at) cs.indiana.edu ) Tom Brinkman (reportbase (at) gmail.com) If there is any errors or ommisions in this report, please send them to Ron or Tom. Here is a summary of the libraries that are in the queue. ------------------------------------- Library: Exception Author: Emil Dotchevski Location: http://www.revergestudios.com/boost-exception/boost-exception.zip Review Manager: Needed Date: Needed Summary: The purpose of Boost Exception is to free designers of exception classes from having to consider what data needs to be stored in exception objects in order for the catch site to be able to make sense of what went wrong. When Boost Exception is used, arbitrary values can be stored in any exception. This can be done directly in the throw-expression, or at a later time as the exception object propagates up the call stack. The ability to add data to any exception object after it has been thrown is important, because often some of the information needed to handle an exception is unavailable at the time of the throw. ----------------------------------------- Library: Scope Exit Author: Alexander Nasonov Location: Boost Sandbox Vault Review Manager: Needed Date: Needed Summary: The scope-exit-arg-pp-seq is Boot.Preprocessor sequence of identifiers that can be used inside scope-exit-body. The direct-declarator is declarator-id followed by optional argument of type boost::scope_exit_group (inside brackets or after the equal sign). This construct executes scope-exit-body at the close of the current scope. ----------------------------------------- Library: Finite State Machines Author: Andrey Semashev Location: Boost Sandbox Vault Review Manager: Martin Vuille Date: Needed Summary: The Boost.FSM library is an implementation of FSM (stands for Finite State Machine) programming concept. There are many cases when a developer would like to distinguish the behavior of a given object depending on some conditions or its internal state. For example, when making software to control an underground charging tourniquiet a programmer would like to separate states in which the tourniquiet may persist: an idle state, when the device awaits for another passenger that would like to pass; a processing state, when the passenger have come and put his ticket into the device; and the passing state, when the tourniquiet lets the passenger pass through. In fact, each state describes different reaction of the machine at the same events (a passenger may only pass after paying for ticket). Obviously, the tourniquiet have to be able to change its internal state in order to function properly, this is called state switching or transitions between states (or just transitions for short). ----------------------------------- Library: Floating Point Utilities Author: Johan Råde Location: Boost Sandbox Vault http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?directory=Math%20-%20Numerics Review Manager: Needed Date: Needed Summary: Proposed Additions to the Boost Math Library <boost/math/fpclassify.hpp> Functions for floating point number classification: fpclassify, isfinite, isinf, isnan, isnormal. Follows TR1. <boost/math/signbit.hpp> Functions for floating point number sign bit access and modification: signbit, copysign, changesign. Follows TR1. <boost/math/nonfinite_num_facets.hpp> Facets that parse and format infinity and NaN according to the C99 standard. Used for portable handling of infinity and NaN in text streams. ----------------------------------- Library: Switch Author: Steven Watanabe Location: Boost Sandbox Vault http://tinyurl.com/yvssgx Review Manager: Needed Date: Needed Introduction: The built in C/C++ switch statement is very efficient. Unfortunately, unlike a chained if/else construct there is no easy way to use it when the number of cases depends on a template parameter. <TODO: more description needed>