[boost] The Boost Bug Sprint is here!

Subject: [boost] The Boost Bug Sprint is here!
From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-29 10:22:45

The boost bug sprint starts today Friday, May 29th, and runs through 
Sunday June 7th.

Status
5/29: 812 open tickets.

The goal is to address a large number of open bugs/patches/feature 
requests in the Trac system at <http://svn.boost.org/trac/report/1>. 
There are currently 812 open tickets; we'd like to knock that number 
down _a lot_.

What can you do?

1) You can fix bugs.
* If you are a library maintainer, you can commit your fixes. ;-)
* If you are not a library maintainer, you can fix a problem on your 
local machine (and test it!!), and then attach your fix as a patch to 
the Trac ticket for the library maintainer to commit. If you do this, 
please provide a test case that exercises the problem; i.e, one that 
fails w/o your patch, and succeeds afterwards.

2) You can characterize bugs.
* You can attempt to replicate the bug on your system(s), and attach 
information that you discover to the Trac ticket. This will make it 
easier for other people to solve the problem, even if you cannot.
* You can write test cases demonstrating the problem, and attach them 
to the Trac ticket.
* You can determine if the bug still exists; sometimes they get 
fixed, and the ticket never gets closed. In this case, try to 
identify a checkin that addresses the bug; it's always suspicious 
when bugs go away "by accident."

3) You can test patches.
* Some of the tickets in the Trac system contain patches - some are 
quite old. You can install these patches on your system, and 
determine if they (a) build, and (b) work. If you do this, please 
provide detail. Don't just say "works for me" - say "I installed this 
over revision XXX on system YYY with compiler ZZZ. The patch 
installed and compiled successfully, and passed all the tests."
* You can write test cases for the patches, and attach them to the ticket.

4) You can help implement new features.
* There are a whole set of "feature requests" in the Trac system. If 
you have an idea about one of these, you can add comments to the Trac 
system. You can attempt to implement these new features, and attach 
the patch to the ticket. (Don't forget the test cases!!).

Every day during the bug sprint, I'll post the # of tickets 
modified/closed/opened on the previous day, as well as the total 
number of open tickets.

If you aren't sure where to start, you can verify existing patches.
Here are a list of patches that have been open at least six months.
[ Note: The URL for ticket number XXXX is 
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/XXXX ]

Bug #	Library	Description
2603	smart_ptr	patch for owner_before and owner_less support 
with shared_ptr/weak_ptr
2581	mpi		MPI tutorial sample has missing includes
2509	string_algo	case conversion (to_upper) fails in Codegear 
C++Builder 5.9.3
2484	bimap	Const-overload needed for bimap 
associative_container_adaptor::count()
2482	concept_check	msvc-9.0 unreferenced formal parameter 
warning when using boost::breadth_first_visit
2454	fusion	Fusion - MSVC level 1 warnings
2452	fusion	Fusion vector warning 4512 supression would be nice,
2390	test	"[patch] fix gcc-4.3 ""unused"" warning in 
floating_point_comparison"
2370	lexical_cast	[lexical_cast] Patch to reduce warnings for 
CodeGear (Borland)
2351	spirit	Minor BOOST_SPIRIT_RULE fixes (rule_parser.hpp)
2312	smart_ptr	intrusive_ptr::operator=  should have by-value argument
2304	spirit	Patch to fix warnings in spirit
2297	mpl	Workaround for GCC bug
2290	serialization	Patch for GCC-4.0.1 compatibility (and better 
compile time).
2271	serialization	Cannot load version 1.35.0 xml archives that 
contain vectors of primitive types
2208	Python	Pyste can use ElementTree from Python 2.5
2149	date_time	Updated Daylight Savings Time for Australia/Perth
2142	Python	Patch for boost.python - return_pointee_value,
2114	none	Patch for export symbols from shared library
2064	tokenizer	Interval notation is wrong in tokenizer documentation
2053	threads	porting boost to avr32 linux platform
1947	iterator	traversal access decoupling
1861	date_time	time_duration type can not be correctly 
written or read of the period spans 24 hours of more (vc9 and 
probably others).
1850	thread	request for unlock_guard (and/or unique_unlock) to 
compliment lock_guard/unique_lock
1811	Building Boost	Help packaging by supporting DESTDIR
1791	lexical_cast	fix warning on MSVC warning level 4
1702	random	serialization for Mersenne twister
1681	filesystem	patch for NTFS symbolic links
1541	parameter	[parameter] Patch for missing includes
1535	function	[result_of] remove unneeded headers
1534	build	Add support for winsdk 6.1.6000 to Boost.Build.v2
1533	iterator	boost/function.hpp unneeded in transform_iterator.hpp
1529	fusion	Missing include statement
1521	bimap	Missing #include statements
1519	iterator	lvalue-ness resurrection in transform_iterator
1437	random	"normal_distribution.hpp, improvements to 
distribution and possibly speed"
1418	serialization	polymorphic archive performance improvement
1377	GIL	Add ability to save RGBA image as TIFF with 
associated-alpha (premultiplied) transparency channel.
1341	asio	unused argument and another g++ warning
1338	numeric	g++ warnings and incomplete header inclusions
1271	Python	unused parameter warning in release build
1116	build	disable some warnings in msvc build
1066	Python	Patch to make Boost.Python compile on SunCC
1049	mpl	Getting mpl/has_xxx.hpp to compile on AIX
1020	iterator	Boost.Iterator proposal to add is_constant_iterator
903	Python	inconsistent usage of function pointer typedefs
868	thread	[thread] thread_specific_ptr::element_type ?
864	lambda	[lambda][utility] Make lambda support result<>
863	[parameter] fix operator|| for lazy binding
861	parameter	Detect nested template members with 
has_template_xxx,mpl
857	Python	add shared_ptr< const T> support
827	date_time	Unused variable in format date parser,
802	thread	[thread] MSVS: Allow use of thread headers with /Za
761	mpl	[mpl] evc4 port
717	Python	Add operator for __repr__ similar to __str__
637	mpl	Adjusts mpl::pair concept to be compatible with STL pairs

--------- Sign-up sheet --------
The following people have committed to participate in the bug sprint.
Please add you name here, along with what you can do.
1) Marshall Clow (coordination, Mac OS X characterization)
2) Beman Dawes (filesystem, system, timer)
3) Doug Gregor (function, graph, logic, mpi, numeric, property_map, signals)
4) "joel falcou" <joel.falcou_at_[hidden]> ( linux gcc testing/VC 2008 
testing, patching)
5) Michael Caisse <boost_at_[hidden]> (bug fixing)
6) Jeremiah Willcock <jewillco_at_[hidden]> (will test and commit graph patches)
7) David Abrahams (iterator, python)
8) Sohail Somani (patches for g++ 4.2.4)
9) Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> (bug fixes, como)
10) vicente.botet" <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]>
11) Stjepan Rajko <stjepan.rajko_at_[hidden]> (fusion)
12) Daniel Wallin (parameter, ...)

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-- Marshall
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