/liaw2021-boostingboost

Boost Software License 1.0BSL-1.0

Intro

"thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work" -Mark Twain (1907)

What is this session?

Workshop

  • Learn by doing – work on libraries
  • Different topic every year
  • Meet every day to present, discuss progress

“Self Organizing”

  • Platform for learning from peers

  • About C++, Boost Development, etc

  • Community Building

    • Create contributors
    • Create connections

Ways to participate

  • Please participate!
  • Session(s) are meant to be interactive
  • Shaped/run by the participants
  • Things you can do
    • Research, Write Code, Present
    • Come to daily sessions and provide input

Boosting Boost

  • 2021 Goal is to improve boost
    • fix warnings
    • upgrade a library for newer c++ version
    • add a small feature
    • improve documentation
  • Requests from the maintainers
    • Graph
    • Tokenizer

Boost Development Steps

  • Get Boost tree (release or git)
  • fork the repo for the library
  • clone fork into boost tree
  • checkout on branch

https://github.com/boostorg/wiki/wiki/Getting-Started%3A-Cheat-Sheet

Approximate Day Plan

  • meetup here 'during lunch' 10:30 MDT
  • day 1: Get Organized
    • Selection of projects to attack
    • Assignments and teaming
  • day 2 - 4: work, daily meetups
  • day 5: Wrap up – future directions