Here is a post-mini-review status report to support a pull request to merge endian into the boost super-project master branch as a submodule. (It has been a submodule of the super-project develop branch for months.) The mini-review ran from January 23rd through February 1st. There were over 50 messages posted in the main review thread ("[Review] Boost.Endian mini-review"). The key question Joel Falcou, the review manger, asked was: Is the library ready to be added to Boost releases? All seven responses to the question were "Yes" votes (Peter Dimov, Nevin Liber, Philip Bennefall, Jason Newton, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, Cliff Green, Bjorn Reese), and none of these votes were conditional. Other things that came out of the mini-review discussion: * Major concern: The default alignment needs to revert to unaligned. There should be no problem completing this before the final 1.58.0 release, and probably before the beta, but I need to carve out a quiet couple of hours to review the discussions before actually doing the revert. * Major concern: Floating point support needs an additional test program tailored to the characteristics of floating point numbers. A warning needs to be added to the docs alerting users that FP support is much less mature than integer support. The plan is to create the new test program in the next few days, and ask on the list for contributions of test cases from FP experts. * Requests for new features: A couple of simple to analyze and implement features have already been added. Other possible new features were added to a "Future directions" section of the docs so they won't be forgotten. * Technical fixes and suggestions. Most of these have already been applied. * Documentation fixes and suggestions. Most of these have already been applied, with three or four docs change emails still to be processed. Today is the cut off for 1.58.0 new libraries, so I'm planning to submit pull requests to merge endian submodule support from the boost super-project's develop branch into its master branch. (endian submodule support has been in the boost super-project's develop branch for months.) Thanks to all of those who contributed to the mini-review! --Beman