Re: [boost] Summer of Code 2010

Subject: Re: [boost] Summer of Code 2010
From: Andrew Sutton (andrew.n.sutton_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-07 16:26:34

> Concerning Unicode, I did the foolish choice this year of working full-time
> as the same time as I finish my studies, which hasn't left me as much free
> time as I would have liked it to.
> I will be resuming work on it this summer, however, as I am quite keen on
> getting it into Boost.
>

Working and studying seems to be increasingly common these days. Speaking
from experience, it's absolutely killing my ability to get any quality work
out of the undergrads in my department :)

Are you planning to re-apply for SoC for this? If you did, how would the
proposal vary from last year?

> One concern I have is that it is quite close to Boost.Iterator,
> Boost.Range, Boost.RangeEx and Boost.StringAlgo, and I would like my changes
> to be added as improvement upon those libraries if possible.
> But I guess proposing everything under Boost.Unicode makes it quite easier
> to review and all.
>

I think that largely depends on the maintainer(s) of those libraries. I
would hope that you could avoid a formal review since the libraries are
already in place. I would also think that if the algo/iter/range changes are
orthogonal to the unicode stuff, a separate review would be required. In the
worst case, you could probably just wrap and hide the modified libraries.

Andrew Sutton
andrew.n.sutton_at_[hidden]