Next in Review Queue? (October 2011)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/29/11 9:21 AM, dsimcha wrote:
> On 10/29/2011 2:03 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 10/27/11 6:53 PM, dsimcha wrote:
>>> On 10/27/2011 7:14 PM, Trass3r wrote:
>>>>> Dimitry's FReD library review looks to have been a success.
>>>>
>>>> What about the other GSoC projects, esp. the linear algebra stuff?
>>>
>>> David Nadlinger's Thrift project can't go into Phobos because of
>>> licensing IIUC and probably doesn't belong in a standard library anyhow.
>>
>> I think it would be great to push it in Phobos - at least in etc. What
>> are the licensing issues?
>
> On second thought I guess none with just the bindings.

Great. I'll get in touch with David regarding further evolution.

>>> Cristi Cobzarenco's SciD project isn't thoroughly fleshed out and
>>> debugged enough for Phobos yet.
>>
>> There seems to be activity on SciD. Are you or someone you know
>> interested in working on a submission?
>
> Triangular and symmetric matrixes are very buggy and missing features
> right now. Cristi has indicated that he's extremely busy with school but
> will eventually start working on SciD again. I don't think it's ready
> for prime time until these features work well.

I understand. The way I see it, if SciD can't be considered functional 
without triangular and symmetric matrices, then we counted an unfinished 
project as successfully completed. This is an imperfection of our GSoC 
planning and scrutiny process that we should fix in the future.

We shouldn't expect and wait that Cristi will restart work on the 
project. His future participation would be of course gladly welcome, but 
we should make nothing contingent upon that.

With that in mind, let me ask again: is there someone in the community 
willing to do what it takes to put SciD through the Phobos review process?


Thanks,

Andrei