Formal Reviews are Vital
Boost libraries are selected for their relevance, high quality, and fitness for purpose. The review process ensures that only the best libraries with committed maintainers become part of the collection. Volunteers who write reviews are performing a vital service for the community. They are heroes!
How It Works
1. Determine Interest
Make sure your library is suitable for the collection by proposing it to the Boost community in the forum. Existing authors will either endorse the library or explain why it is not appropriate or what might be needed to make it a good fit.
2. Post and Request a Manager
The Review Manager is the overseer for the review process of a library. To get the library on the schedule, a suitable manager should volunteer. Post your library to the mailing list to find a volunteer manager.
3. Prepare for Review
The time between the library endorsement and the beginning of the review on the schedule is a great opportunity to make sure that the library meets the requirements, including documentation and build scripts. Before your formal review begins, double-, triple-, and quadruple-check your library. Verify that every code example works, that all unit tests pass on at least two compilers on at least two major operating systems, and run your documentation through a spelling and grammar checker.
4. Review Period
For the two weeks after the review starts, engaged community members from the mailing list ask questions, make comments, and often get into arguments about your library. Finally when they are done, they write their summary containing their opinion of your library and, most importantly, whether to accept or reject it.
4. Accepted or Rejected
After the scheduled time has passed, the review manager retreats for a while to contemplate the results and issue a verdict on whether or not the library will be added to Boost.
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