Re: [boost] Boost reviews

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost reviews
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-21 17:14:20

On 20 Sep 2013 at 22:42, Edward Diener wrote:

> > Did you not see my post
> > http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2013/09/206187.php? I offered
> > to review manage someone's library in exchange for that person review
> > managing AFIO.
> 
> I did see your post but my thoughts are:
> 
> 1) It is not best if A is the review manager for B's library and B is 
> the review manager for A's library. There is too much temptation to 
> approve a library that way.

I agree. I can also see potential for heated arguments.

> 2) Understanding ASIO has proven to me to be a difficult task, albeit I 
> have not spent much time studying it. As I understand it AFIO is an 
> extension of ASIO for files.

Correct. ASIO is totally familiar if you're used to COM and WinRT 
reactor style callback programming, otherwise I agree it's a real 
mountain to climb.

And AFIO, I am told, is harder than ASIO due to the dependency 
chaining facility which apparently wrecks people's heads.

> 3) With that last said I would be glad to be a review manager for a 
> library. But My OP was prompted because I have seen little movement 
> recently in the way of even calls for review managers to speed up the 
> process of having libraries reviewed. Perhaps I just missed such a 
> general request.

It's certainly a concern. Apart from directory monitoring, I expect 
AFIO to be finished this coming week - docs and all. I've just 
finished two days of performance tuning, and I have an AFIO 
implementation blowing past a multithreaded implementaton by 25% in 
warm cache, and a full 100% in cold cache.

It's basically only polish left to go - t's crossed, i's dotted etc. 
Bugs notwithstanding of course, and there are many :(

Niall

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