[Boost-announce] Formal Review of IO and Toolbox extensions to Boost.GIL ends TOMORROW

Subject: [Boost-announce] Formal Review of IO and Toolbox extensions to Boost.GIL ends TOMORROW
From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-09 06:37:44

Dear All,

The formal review of the IO and Toolbox extensions terminates tomorrow.
I'd like to set the cut-off time at Midnight on Saturday, 11 December
2010, UTC Time

(http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=11&month=12&year=2010&hour=0&min=0&sec=0)

I think we have been doing well and received decent amount of feedback.
However, anyone feels there is a need for extension, please let me know
as soon as possible, so I will have time to negotiate it
with the Review Wizards.

Mateusz
  Review Manager for the proposed Boost.GIL.IO and
   Boost.GIL.Toolbox extensions

On 30/11/10 18:01, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
 > Dear All,
 >
 > According to the Boost Formal Review Schedule [1],
 > review of Christian Henning's extensions to the Boost Generic Image
 > Library (Boost.GIL, [2]), it is:
 > * Boost.GIL.IO
 > * Boost.GIL.Toolbox
 > starts on December 1st and lasts until December 10th, 2010.
 >
 > [1] http://www.boost.org/community/review_schedule.html
 > [2] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/libs/gil/doc/index.html
 >
 > ===========
 > What is it?
 > ===========
 >
 > The Boost.GIL.IO extension provides an easy to use interface for
 > reading and writing various image formats. It also includes
 > a framework for adding new formats. The Boost.GIL.IO is indent
 > to replace the current IO extension which is part of Boost
 > for several years now.
 >
 > Features:
 >
 > * A unified way to read and write image encoded in BMP, JPEG,
 >   PNG, PNM, and TIFF formats. The capabilities to read and write
 >   in various formats have improved dramatically.
 >
 > * Image data can be provided via standard file or string streams
 >
 > The Boost.GIL.Toolbox provides new color spaces
 > and other small code to ease programming with Boost.GIL.
 >
 > Features:
 >
 > * Implementation of color spaces: Gray_Alpha, HSL, HSV, LAB, and XYZ
 > * Utilities to support dynamic image workflows and color conversions.
 > * Collection of metafunctions to determine alignment, similarity
 > and homogeneity at pixel level.
 >
 > The Boost.GIL as well as the proposed extensions are provided in
 > form of a headers-only library Although, some image formats come with
 > their format dependency, it is corresponding third-party libraries:
 >
 > JPEG - libjpeg
 > PNG - libpng
 > TIFF - libtiff
 >
 > ===================
 > Getting the library
 > ===================
 >
 > The latest version of both extensions can be downloaded as
 > Zip package:
 >
 > http://gil-contributions.googlecode.com/files/boost_review.zip
 >
 > or directly from the Subversion repository:
 >
 > http://code.google.com/p/gil-contributions/source/browse/trunk/gil_2/
 >
 > and the docs can built as usual with bjam and quickbook tools
 > from within libs/gil/io_new/doc directory
 >
 > The libs/gil/io_new/test/readme.txt provides a step by step guide to
 > configuring, building and running the unit tests.
 >
 > The boost_review.zip is about 20MB due to its extensive collection of
 > test images. They are part of the test suite to make sure that
 > different variations of each image format is read and
 > written correctly.
 >
 > Please, be aware no guarantee can be given that all formats in
 > their all variants are completely supported.
 >
 > ================
 > Writing a review
 > ================
 >
 > If you feel the new IO and Toolbox are interesting extensions
 > to the Boost.GIL library, then please submit your review
 > to the developer list (preferably), or
 > to the review manager (mateusz at loskot dot _n_e_t_)
 >
 > Here are some questions you might want to answer in your review:
 >
 > - What is your evaluation of the design?
 > - What is your evaluation of the implementation?
 > - What is your evaluation of the documentation?
 > - What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the
 >   extensions?
 > - Did you try to use the extensions? With what compiler? Did you have
 >   any problems?
 > - How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick
 > - reading? In-depth study?
 > - Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?
 >
 > And finally, every review should answer this question:
 >
 > - Do you think the extensions should be accepted as a part
 >   of Boost.GIL library?
 >
 > Be sure to say this explicitly so that your other comments don't
 > obscure your overall opinion.
 >
 > Mateusz
 > Review Manager for the proposed Boost.GIL.IO and
 > Boost.GIL.Toolbox extensions

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