Getting involved in Boost

Hi, I'm a Boost user since quite some time now (1.33 or so), however, I did not contribute a library to Boost, and I was also not too active on the news groups (a few posts so far, at most.) When I look at the review queue, I can see lots and lots of interesting libraries waiting. So my question is: How can I, primary a Boost user, contribute to the community to help with getting new libraries into Boost? Primary, I'd be interested in PIMPL and the ThreadPool, possibly in AutoBuffer and Sorting. Is there some recommended way of reviewing a library "out-of-order" with no review manager, such that the review is easily identifiable and can be found when it comes to the real review? For me, it seems to be no problem to gather reviews of a library up-front. This could make it easier for a review manager to do his work, as he could simply start a formal review only after a certain number of reviews has been done. Side note: I couldn't find a recent review status on the website -- under Development, Submissions, the latest report is from 2008, while the one latest one I could find is from June 2009. However, it does not say what the current status of the UUID is -- did I miss some obvious page with the status of all libraries? Cheers, Anteru

Hi, better answers will follow but I'll just state what comes to my mind right now: You can contribute to those libraries by testing them out, checking the documentation is good & consistent, checking the code has no bugs or design flaws in it, and even possibly ask the authors of those libraries if they need any help with the coding (sometimes those libraries are just on hold because the author has no time to "finish" them). Basically, the most issues you can raise/correct before it enters the real review, the better chances it has to be accepted the first time. Philippe
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Anteru
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Philippe Vaucher