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Review Wizard Status Report for November 2007
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News
====

November 7, 2007 - Exception Library Accepted
Announcement: http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2007/11/31912.php

We need experienced review managers. Please take a look at the list
of libraries in need of managers and check out their descriptions. In
general review managers are active boost participants or library
contributors. If you can serve as review manager for any of them,
email Ron Garcia or John Phillips, "garcia at cs dot indiana dot edu"
and "jphillip at capital dot edu" respectively.

A link to this report will be posted to www.boost.org.
If you would like us to make any modifications or additions to this
report before we do that, please email Ron or John.

If you're library author and plan on submitting a library for review
in the next 3-6 months, send Ron or John a short description of your
library and we'll add it to the Libraries Under Construction below.
We know that there are many libraries that are near completion, but we
have hard time keeping track all of them. Please keep us informed
about your progress.

Review Queue
============

* Finite State Machines
* Floating Point Utilities
* Switch
* Property Map (fast-track)
* Graph (fast-track)
* Forward (fast-track)
* Singleton (fast-track)
* Factory (fast-track)
* Lexer
* Thread-Safe Signals
* Logging
* Flyweight
* Unordered Containers

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Finite State Machines
---------------------
:Author: Andrey Semashev
:Review Manager: Martin Vuille
:Download: `Boost Sandbox Vault <http://tinyurl.com/yjozfn>`__

:Description:

   The Boost.FSM library is an implementation of FSM (stands for
   Finite State Machine) programming concept. The main goals of the
   library are:

   * Simplicity. It should be very simple to create state machines using
     this library.
   * Performance. The state machine infrastructure should not be
     very time and memory-consuming in order to be applicable in
     more use cases.
   * Extensibility. A developer may want to add more states to an
     existing state machine. A developer should also be able to
     specify additional transitions and events for the machine with
     minimum modifications to the existing code.

Floating Point Utilities
------------------------
:Author: Johan Råde
:Review Manager: Need Volunteer
:Download:
`Boost Sandbox Vault <http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?
directory=Math%20-%20Numerics>`__

:Description: The Floating Point Utilities library contains the
following:

* Floating point number classification functions: fpclassify, isfinite,
    isinf, isnan, isnormal (Follows TR1)
* Sign bit functions: signbit, copysign, changesign (Follows TR1)
* Facets that format and parse infinity and NaN according to the C99
    standard (These can be used for portable handling of infinity and
NaN
    in text streams).

Switch
------
:Author: Steven Watanabe
:Review Manager: Need Volunteer
:Download:
`Boost Sandbox Vault <http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?
action=downloadfile&filename=mcs_units_v0.7.1.zip&directory=Units>`__

:Description:
   The built in C/C++ switch statement is very efficient. Unfortunately,
   unlike a chained if/else construct there is no easy way to use it
when
   the number of cases depends on a template parameter. The Switch
library
   addresses this issue.

Property Map (fast-track)
-------------------------
:Author: Andrew Sutton
:Review Manager: Jeremy Siek
:Download: http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/graph-v2
:Description:
A number of additions and modifications to the Property Map Library,
including:

   * A constant-valued property map, useful for naturally unweighted
     graphs.
   * A noop-writing property map, useful when you have to provide an
     argument, but just don't care about the output.
   * See
     `ChangeLog <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox/
graph-v2/libs/property_map/ChangeLog>`__
     for details.

Graph (fast-track)
------------------
:Author: Andrew Sutton
:Review Manager: Jeremy Siek
:Download: http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/graph-v2
:Description:
A number of additions and modifications to the Graph Library,
including:

* Two new graph classes (undirected and directed) which are intended
    to make the library more approachable for new developers
* A suite of graph measures including degree and closeness
    centrality, mean geodesic distance, eccentricity, and clustering
    coefficients.
* An algorithm for visiting all cycles in a directed graph (Tiernan's
    from 1970ish). It works for undirected graphs too, but reports
cycles
    twice (one for each direction).
* An algorithm for visiting all the cliques a graph (Bron&Kerbosch).
    Works for both directed and undirected.
* Derived graph measures radius and diameter (from eccentricity) and
    girth and circumference (from Tiernan), and clique number (from
    Bron&Kerbosch).
* An exterior_property class that helps hides some of the weirdness
    with exterior properties.
* runtime and compile-time tests for the new algorithms.
* a substantial amount of documentation
* Graph cores, implemented by David Gleich (@Stanford University)
* Deterministic graph generators - capable of creating or inducing
    specific types of graphs over a vertex set (e.g., star graph, wheel
    graph, prism graph, etc). There are several other specific types
that
    could be added to this, but I haven't had the time just yet.

Forward (fast-track)
--------------------
:Author: Tobias Schwinger

:Review Manager: John Torjo

:Download: http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?
&direction=0&order=&directory=X-Files

:Description: A brute-force solution to the forwarding problem.

Singleton (fast-track)
----------------------
:Author: Tobias Schwinger

:Review Manager: John Torjo

:Download: http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?
&direction=0&order=&directory=X-Files

:Description: Three thread-safe Singleton templates with an
easy-to-use interface.

Factory (fast-track)
--------------------
:Author: Tobias Schwinger

:Review Manager: John Torjo

:Download: http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?
&direction=0&order=&directory=X-Files

:Description: Generic factories.

Lexer
-----
:Author: Ben Hanson