Dear Community, This is my first post, apologies if I am breaking any rule with this. I've wanted to learn and improve my C++ skills for some time now. Learning more about Boost's usage and contributing to it has been on my mind. As a Ph.D student (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), I became aware of Boost's participation in Google's Summer of Code and read up on some of Boost's past projects. Two ideas of GSoC2015 in particular caught my attention: - Concurrent Hash Tables - Mentor: Niall Douglas - Boost Document Library development - Mentor: Antony Polukhin I have been looking for direct contacts to learn about some of these ideas (Niall Douglas and Antony Polukhin, respectively) from 2015's Google Summer of Code to find out more, but was unsuccessful so far. While the first idea was not put into practice, the second one was undertaken (by Anurag Ghosh if I am not mistaken). Would anyone be able to point me in a direction to learn more about the state of work on these two ideas (specially the Document Library) and (if possible) if they are available for me to pick up and look into ways of contributing? Perhaps querying the mentors of those ideas for feedback? Thank you very much for your time, Kind regards, Miguel E. Coimbra
On 3 Jan 2016 at 22:19, Miguel Coimbra wrote:
Two ideas of GSoC2015 in particular caught my attention:
- Concurrent Hash Tables - Mentor: Niall Douglas - Boost Document Library development - Mentor: Antony Polukhin
I have been looking for direct contacts to learn about some of these ideas (Niall Douglas and Antony Polukhin, respectively) from 2015's Google Summer of Code to find out more, but was unsuccessful so far.
It is not hard to find either myself or Antony. Both of us are here, and both of us are at the top of Google search results for our names.
While the first idea was not put into practice, the second one was undertaken (by Anurag Ghosh if I am not mistaken).
Correct.
Would anyone be able to point me in a direction to learn more about the state of work on these two ideas (specially the Document Library) and (if possible) if they are available for me to pick up and look into ways of contributing? Perhaps querying the mentors of those ideas for feedback?
I'm sure Antony will reply later about Boost.Document. Regarding any project ideas based on concurrent hash tables or AFIO on past GSoC ideas pages, I will not be available as mentor for either topic in 2016. The concurrent hash tables idea is still an excellent addition for Boost and may find a willing mentor somewhere here. Anything related to AFIO is obsolete as the post-peer-review AFIO v2 rewrite is a radically different design totally incommensurate with the AFIO which was peer reviewed, and any code contributed to AFIO v1 would be a waste of effort as the v2 design doesn't allow code reuse from v1. Hope that helps, and keep searching! Remember there are many more project ideas in even older GSoC ideas pages. Some project ideas do spring to mind which I will add eventually to the GSoC 2016 ideas page: 1. A thing Boost really could do with is a decent (optionally mmappable) dense hash map implementation, so the hash map could contain billions of items and mostly reside on disk yet lookups would still be very fast. 2. Another is a constexpr compile time generated static map. Every Boost programmer here has at some time or other instantiated a global std::map or std::unordered_map populated from static data on process init and it would be really great now we have C++ 14 to get the compiler to do the map population at compile time such that you have a ready to go STL compliant map at process init. I could be persuaded to mentor either proposal if the student were an outstanding C++ programmer with a proven record of writing very well tested solid code. Experience in unit testing is absolutely key here. Niall --- Boost C++ Libraries Google Summer of Code 2016 admin https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2016
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