On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:17:51 -0700 (PDT), Tom Brinkman wrote
Mini-reviews would be very useful. Im shur that each boost developer/user could contribute a few small, useful algorithms. It would be a great way to increase the level of participation by developers who want to contribute but dont have the time to write a complete library.
Sounds like a cool idea to me :-)
To get things started, as Review Manager, I could start by collecting submissions by other boost members and present them to the group monthly or bi-monthly. We could call this the Monthly Boost Algorithms review. (I have at-least ten algorithms that I could contribute for consideration for the first few reviews.)
We should also discuss to where to place the algorithms /code within the boost namespace.
I could create a document that lists all the algorithms under consideration with a small summary. The boost members could than accept/reject each algorithm and offer suggestions.
We've been informally gathering them on the Wiki for a couple years now :-) http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?STLAlgorithmE... There's a lot of good ideas there and short of string and container algorithms most of them have yet to find a home in Boost. And really, I'm certain there are many more out there.
More to follow in the next few day Any thoughts?
I think this would be a useful endeavor. Now that we have BoostBook I think the process of adding one of these could be streamlined down to writing a header with the algorithm and an xml file with the description. Now for the one worry, we still have a backlog of completed libraries to review -- we owe it to the authors of these works to get to them as fast as we can. Jeff