The C++ Alliance

From: Louis Tatta (louis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-02-02 22:48:45

Hello,

I am writing to update you on the recent activities of The C++ Alliance.
Our newest team members include Matt Borland, Ruben Perez. Matt is
developing Boost.Charconv, a C++11 library which polyfills the equivalent
C++17 functionality, and contributing to the maintenance and improvement of
Boost.Math. Ruben is making significant improvements to Boost.MySQL. Our
long-running Boost website project continues to progress and will be
deployed in beta this year.

As some authors and maintainers may have observed, the code coverage
services provided by https://codecov.io have been varying greatly in
quality in terms of the user experience of viewing the reports, with the
experience being typically worse. To mitigate these risks we are
researching the development of a new set of HTML, CSS, and JS templates for
presenting high quality coverage reports in the original style.

In our continuous efforts to improve documentation quality we have
contracted HDoc to explore generating Doxygen compatible XML output so that
we might move away from Doxygen in favor of HDoc. This tool is focused
specifically on C++ and could be a better fit for Boost libraries that
currently use Doxygen.

Our vision for documentation includes a significant investment in Asciidoc
as the choice of markdown. This means rendering Doxygen/HDoc output in
Asciidoc and commissioning a great set of stylesheets for Asciidoc to
replace the stock sheets. In the longer term we are investigating Antora as
a solution for producing documentation that is well integrated into the new
website, to offer a better navigation experience, improved accessibility,
more features such as C++ syntax highlighting and code snippet
interactivity, and others.

We are excited to work on these developments, with the hope they will add
vitality and enhance Boost. We look forward to sharing more updates with
you in the near future.

Best regards

Louis Tatta

CEO

The C++ Alliance