Reminder: Describe needs a review manager

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-02-23 18:56:22

This is a reminder that my library Describe

    https://github.com/pdimov/describe
    https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html

needs a review manager.

Describe is a library that allows programmers to annotate their classes (and 
enumerations) in order to enable simple reflection. It provides a very 
important fundament on which other libraries can build upon to provide 
automatic support for user-defined types.

For example, given an annotated type, Boost.JSON can automatically provide 
conversions from/to json::value. Boost.ContainerHash can automatically 
provide a hash function hash_value for the type. Boost.Serialization can 
automatically provide serialization support. See the examples:

https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html#example_to_json
https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html#example_from_json
https://pdimov.github.io/describe/doc/html/describe.html#example_serialization

Other JSON (and serialization) libraries already offer a similar mechanism, 
e.g. https://github.com/nlohmann/json#arbitrary-types-conversions. But since 
each library has its own private way to annotate types, a programmer needs 
to repeat the type annotations for every library he wants his type to be 
known to. This is unnecessary and undesirable, and a standard mechanism to 
describe types avoids it.

Describe is intended to be this standard mechanism, and I believe that we 
need it in Boost sooner rather than later.

Thanks in advance to whoever volunteers.