[boost] [Review] Review of the Accumulators library begins today, Jan 29

From: John Phillips (phillips_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-29 09:15:01

The formal review of the Boost.Accumulators library, submitted by Eric 
Neibler begins today and ends on Wednesday, February 7. The library is 
available from

http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?directory=Math%20-%20Numerics

 From the documentation:

  Boost.Accumulators is both a library for incremental statistical 
computation  as well as an extensible framework for incremental 
calculation in general.  The library deals primarily with the concept of 
an accumulator,  which is a primitive computational entity that accepts 
data one sample at a  time and maintains some internal state. These 
accumulators may offload some  of their computations on other 
accumulators, on which they depend. Accumulators  are grouped within an 
accumulator set. Boost.Accumulators  resolves the inter-dependencies 
between accumulators in a set and ensures that  accumulators are 
processed in the proper order.

Your comments may be brief or lengthy. If you identify  problems along 
the way, please note if they are minor, serious, or  showstoppers.

Here are some questions you might want to answer in your review:
        • 	What is your evaluation of the design?
        • 	What is your evaluation of the implementation?
        • 	What is your evaluation of the documentation?
        • 	What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of 		 
      the  library?
        • 	Did you try to use the library?  With what compiler?         		Did 
you have any problems?
        • 	How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A 	 		glance? A 
quick  reading? In-depth study?
        • 	Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?

And finally, every review should answer this question:
        • 	Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost   		library?  
Be sure to say this explicitly so that your  		 		other  comments don't 
obscure your overall opinion.

All interested parties are encouraged to submit a review. These can be 
sent to the developer list, the user list, or if you don't want to share 
your review with the general public it can be sent directly to me.

Thanks to all for the work you will do on this review.

                        John Phillips
                        Review Manager