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<h1>Boost Library Submission Process</h1>
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<p>This page describes the process a library developer goes
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through to get a library accepted by Boost.</p>
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<p>See the <a href="requirements.html">Boost Library
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Requirements and Guidelines</a> page for issues of content.</p>
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<h3>Steps for getting a library accepted by Boost:</h3>
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<li><a href="#Learn">Learn about Boost</a></li>
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<li><a href="#interest">Determine interest</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Preliminary">Preliminary submission</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Refinement">Refinement</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Submission">Submission for review</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Review">Formal Review</a></li>
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<li><a href="#SitePosting">Web site posting</a></li>
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<li><a href="#People">People page</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Lifecycle">Lifecycle</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="Learn" id="Learn"></a>Learn about Boost</h2>
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<p>Subscribe to the <a href="/community/groups.html#main">main
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developers mailing list</a> for a while, or look through the
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<a href="/community/groups.html#archive">archives</a>. Click
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around the <a href="/">web site</a>. Understand the <a href=
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"requirements.html">Requirements</a>. Read the rest of this
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page to learn about the process. Otherwise, you will just end
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up wasting everyone's time.</p>
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<p>There is a culture associated with Boost, aimed at
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encouraging high quality libraries by a process of discussion
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and refinement.</p>
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<p>If what you really want is a site that will just post your
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library without even looking at it, you should go
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elsewhere.</p>
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<h2><a name="interest" id="interest"></a>Determine
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interest</h2>
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<p>Potential library submitters should use the Boost developers
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<a href="/community/groups.html">mailing list</a> as a forum to
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gauge interest a possible submission.</p>
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<p>A message might be as simple as "Is there any interest in a
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library which solves Traveling Salesperson problems in linear
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time?"</p>
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<p>A bit of further description or snippet of code may be
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helpful. Messages should be plain text; not rich text, HTML,
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etc.</p>
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<p>Please don't post lengthy descriptions, documentation, or
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code to the mailing list, and no attachments, even small ones.
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Please post lengthy material in the <a href=
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"http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/" class="external">Boost
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Vault</a>.</p>
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<h2><a name="Preliminary" id="Preliminary"></a>Preliminary
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submission</h2>
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<p>If response to an initial query indicates interest, then
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post the preliminary submission files in the <a href=
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"http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/" class="external">Boost
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Vault</a> on the sourceforge web site if you haven't already
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done so.</p>
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<h2><a name="Refinement" id="Refinement"></a>Refinement</h2>
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<p>Discuss, refine, resubmit. Repeat until satisfied.</p>
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<p>The exact details of this process varies a lot. Sometimes it
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is public, on the mailing list, sometimes a lot of discussion
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happens in private emails. For some libraries the process is
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over quickly, for others it goes on for months. It's
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often challenging, and sometimes leads off in completely
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unexpected directions.</p>
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<p>The <a href="/community/groups.html#archive">archive</a> of
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past messages is one way to see how this process worked for
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other Boost libraries.</p>
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<h2><a name="Submission" id="Submission"></a>Submission for
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review</h2>
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<p>All of the files which make up the library should be
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combined and compressed into a single submission file using the
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.zip format. Free encoders and decoders for this format running
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on many different platforms are available at the <a href=
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"http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/">Info-ZIP</a> web site,
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which includes a FAQ and much other useful information about
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the .zip format. Many commercial compressor-archiver utilities
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also support this format.</p>
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<p>The submission file should contain material as if on the
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boost.org web site. The closer the submission file mirrors the
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final <a href="requirements.html#Directory_structure">directory
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structure</a> and format of the web site, the better.</p>
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<p>Like a preliminary submission, post the final submission
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.zip file in the <a href=
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"http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/">Boost Vault</a>.</p>
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<h2><a name="Review" id="Review"></a>Formal Review</h2>
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<p>Before asking for formal review, your submission should be
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posted in the Boost files/vault. Please verify that your
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submission compiles and runs under at least two compilers. This
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flushes out obvious portability problems. If you don't have
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access to a second compiler, ask for help on the Boost mailing
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list.</p>
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<p>Once a library author feels a submission (which presumably
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is now in the files/vault) has matured enough for formal
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review, the author sends a message requesting a formal review
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to the mailing list. Please use a subject in the form "Review
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Request: library" where <i>library</i> is replaced by the
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library name.</p>
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<p>See <a href="/community/reviews.html">Formal Review
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Process</a> for details.</p>
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<p>Formal Review schedules are posted on the <a href=
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"/community/review_schedule.html">web site</a>.</p>
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<h2><a name="SitePosting" id="SitePosting"></a>Boost web site
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posting</h2>
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<p>Once an accepted library is ready for inclusion on the Boost
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web site, the submitter is typically given Boost repository
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write access, and expected to check-in and maintain the library
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there. Contact the moderators if you need write access or
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direct use of the repository isn't possible for you.</p>
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<h2><a name="People" id="People"></a>People page</h2>
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<p>If the boost.org web site doesn't already have your capsule
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biography and picture (optional, with not-too-serious pictures
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preferred), please send them to the Boost webmaster. It is up
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to you as to whether or not the biography includes your email
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address or other contact information. The preferred picture
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format is .jpg, but other common formats are acceptable. The
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preferred image size is 500x375 but the webmaster has photo
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editing software and can do the image preparation if
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necessary.</p>
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<h2><a name="Lifecycle" id="Lifecycle"></a>Lifecycle</h2>
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<p>Libraries are software; they lose their value over time if
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not maintained. Postings on the Boost developers or users
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mailing lists can alert you to potential maintenance needs;
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please plan to maintain your library over time. If you no
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longer can or wish to maintain your library, please post a
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message on the Boost developers mailing list and help someone
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else take over as the library maintainer.</p>
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