RE: [boost] More reviewers wanted: FSM review extended until Mar 6th

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-01 13:39:44

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Pavel Vozenilek
| Sent: 01 March 2005 14:31
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: [boost] More reviewers wanted: FSM review extended 
| until Mar 6th
| 
| even short opinions on this library are much welcomed.

Presumptive mode ON ;-)

| So now is your chance to recommend this tool into Boost
| Here are some questions you might want to answer in
| your review:
| 
|     * What is your evaluation of the documentation?
|       How easy (or hard) it is to understand library
|       features? What can be improved?

Tutorial and examples are helpful and well written
(and refer to guides on why you would want to use FSM/UML)
and enough to get started.
 
|     * What is your evaluation of the design?
Not qualified to judge.
| 
|     * The library documentation contains
|       few not yet solved issues (name,
|       separating the library into two parts,
|       exception handling). What is you opinion here?
OK - could be changed in the light of more user feedback
(but we won't get that until accepted into Boost?)

|     * What is your evaluation of the implementation?
|       Are there parts of code too obscure or
|       duplicating exiting Boost functionality?
|       Can something be factored out to standalone
|       library or among general utilities?
Not qualified to judge, but code _looks_ up to standard. 
| 
|     * Are there performance bottlenecks?
|       Does the library design fit requirements
|       of real-time systems? How is it useable
|       for embedded systems?
|       Is the documentation clear on performance
|       tradeoffs?
Yes - but guidance on suitable applications during review could be added.
| 
|     * What is your evaluation of the potential
|       usefulness of the library?

More useful than some might think.  Maintainability seems strongest factor. 

| Can you compare this FSM to other implementations?

 
|     * Did you try to use the library? 
Only ran stopwatch OK on MS 8.0

|     * How much effort did you put into your
|       evaluation?
A quick reading?
|     * Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?
No.

|     * Do you think the library should be accepted as a
|       Boost library? 

Yes