Re: [Boost-users] [Boost-announce] [boost] [afio] Formal review of Boost.AFIO

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost-announce] [boost] [afio] Formal review of Boost.AFIO
From: Ahmed Charles (acharles_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-31 04:13:12

I have reviews from the following people:

Roland Bock <rbock_at_[hidden]>
Paul A. Bristow <pbristow_at_[hidden]>

Thomas Heller <thom.heller_at_[hidden]>
Hartmut Kaiser <hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden]>

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy_at_[hidden]>

If you've sent a review and I've missed it, do let me know. There have
been lots of emails this week and I want to make sure I've caught all of
the reviews.

On 8/22/2015 6:08 PM, Ahmed Charles wrote:
> The formal review of the Boost.AFIO library starts, August 21st and ends 
> on Monday August 31st.  
> 
> Boost.AFIO provides a portable API implementing synchronous and 
> asynchronous race-free filesystem and scatter-gather file i/o. It requires 
> a minimum of C++ 11. It has minimum dependencies on a Filesystem TS and a 
> Networking TS implementation (e.g. Boost.Filesystem and Boost.ASIO). 
> Backends are provided for the Windows NT kernel and POSIX.  
> 
> The utility of a portable library providing strong concurrent race 
> guarantees about filesystem and file i/o can be seen in its tutorial where 
> a transactional ACID key-value store is built from first principles.  
> 
> Boost.AFIO was brought to Boost as part of GSoC 2013 and Niall Douglas has 
> continued to develop and improve the library since then, generating two 
> internal implementation libraries Boost.APIBind and Boost.Monad which are 
> expected to be separately brought for Boost review in 2016.
> 
> The documentation can be found here: 
> https://boostgsoc13.github.io/boost.afio/doc/html/afio.html  
> 
> The source code can be found here: 
> https://github.com/BoostGSoC13/boost.afio/tree/boost-peer-review  
> 
> Online web compiler playpen can be found here:
> http://melpon.org/wandbox/permlink/DR8wCpu5Rl20GMdM?
> 
> 
> Please answer the following questions: 
> 
> 1. Should Boost.AFIO be accepted into Boost? Please state all 
>   conditions for acceptance explicity. 
> 2. What is your evaluation of the design? 
> 3. What is your evaluation of the implementation? 
> 4. What is your evaluation of the documentation? 
> 5. What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library? 
> 6. Did you try to use the library? With what compiler? Did you have 
>   any problems? 
> 7. How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick 
>   reading? In-depth study? 
> 8. Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?  		 	   		  
> 
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