Geometry Boost List: Re: [geometry] Greetings

Subject: Re: [geometry] Greetings
From: Adam Wulkiewicz (adam.wulkiewicz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-09 10:49:36

Hi Nikos,

Sorry for a late response.

Νικόλαος Αθανασίου wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
>  working on other parts of the library as well would be great but for 
> now I need to focus on the R-Tree (time constraints prohibit doing 
> otherwise). I believe beginning with bug fixes and studying is the way 
> to learn. Once I acquire sufficient knowledge of the library (~month 
> considering that summer holidays are upon us) I'd like to work on 
> balancing/packing algorithms. Also serialization and support for 
> external memory algorithms is an interesting topic, but I believe I'll 
> have a better insight only after the ~month learning period.
>  As for things related to my thesis, if there's a plan to incorporate 
> GPU computing to the library (especially now that "boost.compute" 
> seems to be able to make it into boost) I'd be happy to work on 
> implementations and propose algorithms there as well; I attached a 
> small presentation-survey project (skip to section 4, the initial part 
> is just introduction to RTrees) where you can see areas of application 
> for GPUs and references to some papers on the topic.
>  I'll be expecting guideliness on how to work on bug fixes (or 
> priorities therein - hopefully sorted by ascending difficulty :P )

The currently reported bugs can be found here:
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=geometry&col=id&col=summary&col=component&col=status&col=type&col=milestone&order=priority

Regarding the rtree bugs I'm fixing them as fast as possible so 
currently there is only one depending on the other parts of the library, 
a feature request and one which I couldn't reproduce.

I had many plans regarding things that could be improved or added into 
the rtree but I don't have enough free time. I think that for now I'll 
write about them in a separate, private email. If there are other people 
willing to help, please just say. In general, feel free to propose 
anything that you think could be a good addition to the library.

You can propose changes by creating pull requests on GitHub: 
https://github.com/boostorg/geometry
Please also have a look at the "For Contributors" section in the GitHub 
Wiki starting from this: 
https://github.com/boostorg/geometry/wiki/Contribution-Tutorial

Regards,
Adam