Next in Review Queue? (October 2011)

[dsimcha]

On 10/29/2011 10:59 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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

If Cristi never gets around to resuming work on SciD, I'll work on it 
slowly but surely.  I agree SciD is unfinished, but this was at least 
partly due to unforeseen things like compiler bugs and the last-minute 
decision to change things over to COW/value semantics and other misc. 
scope creep.  IMHO Cristi did a very good job under the circumstances 
and there's no way I could complain/fail him for not finishing 
triangular/symmetric matrices before the GSoC deadline, if that's what 
you're implying.  Writing a full scientific lib in a summer is pretty 
ambitious and I'm just glad that we got so far off the ground.