Re: [boost] Boost is supposed to serve *the entire C++ community; it isn't Boost's goal to serve Boost's community*

On 21 May 2016, at 23:38, Vinnie Falco wrote:

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:

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On 5/21/16 1:20 PM, M.A. van den Berg wrote:

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How can we speed of the review process, make it more efficient?

One can go there download or checkout the submission, try it on his machine. And fill out a form which corresponds to the Boost Review process. The library author - or anyone else is informed of this and can respond. All this can be done before there is any formal review announced.

Just to expand on this, here's a library that is sitting in the incubator (disclaimer: I am the author): https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast

It offers implementations of HTTP/1 and WebSocket using Boost.Asio.

If someone were to download and try out this library and offer some feedback, I'm sure the author would be thrilled since acting on feedback can only increase the likelihood of boost acceptance.

That would be a good idea indeed. I’ve looked at the repository and I like the good number of examples, it would allow me to get started quickly. It also looks matures, the examples show a wide variety of use cases. Finding actual users -a chicken and egg problem- would be a better review than me. I think I’m unfit to review this for three reasons: * I can’t think of a *real-world* use case that makes me have to go beyond simply checking if one of the example compiles (which I’m sure it will, but which won’t reveal the usability). * I haven’t used ASIO since 1.36. I end up switching to different languages for network programming, mainly Python, node.js. I do quite a bit of backend web development but I doesn’t require me to switch to C++ * without having to dig in deep I would probably fail to spot little issues like const correctness, forwarding, copying, references, thread safety. Those things will come to light when something is not working as expecting in a complicated use case. Maybe authors can find real-world users by going through git, look for potential library users? Find C++11 apps that embed a http server or client, fork it and build a boost dependent variant, talk to authors?