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## Boost Policies

> Mailing List Discussion Policy. What's acceptable and what isn't.

> Library Requirements and Guidelines. Basic standards for those preparing a submission.

> Writing Documentation for Boost Basic guidelines for writing documentation and templates for quickly generating documentation that follows the guidelines.

> Test Policy and Protocols. How testing works at Boost.

> Library Submission Process. How to submit a library to Boost.

> Library Formal Review Process. Including how to submit a review comment.

> Header Policy. Headers are where a library contacts its users, so programming practices are particularly important.

> Implementation Variations. Sometimes one size fits all, sometimes it doesn't. This page deals with the trade-offs.

> Library Reuse. Should Boost libraries use other boost libraries? What about the C++ Standard Library? It's another trade-off.

> Moderators. Who they are and what they do.

## Boost Whatever

> Compiler Status Describes what library works with which compiler.

> Formal Review Schedule Future, current, and recently past Formal Reviews.

> Release Procedures How developers and the release manager prepare for a Boost release.

> Internal Regression Test Suite Describes the tool for generating the compiler status tables

> Header Dependencies Describes what other headers each boost header includes.

> Proposal for a C++ Library Repository Web Site The original 1998 proposal that launched Boost.

> How to report bugs Ways to report Boost bugs.

> How to request features Ways to request new library features.

## Articles and Papers

> Error and Exception Handling describes approaches to errors and exceptions by David Abrahams.

> Counted Body Techniques by Kevlin Henney is must reading for those interested in reference counting, a widely used object management idiom. Originally published in Overload magazine.

> Generic Programming Techniques by David Abrahams and Jeremy Siek describe some of the techniques used in Boost libraries.

> Feature Model Diagrams in text and HTML describes how to represent feature model diagrams in text form.

> Portability Hints: Borland C++ 5.5.1 describes Borland C++ portability issues, with suggested workarounds.

> Portability Hints: Microsoft VC++ 6.0 SP4 describes Microsoft C++ portability issues, with suggested workarounds.

> Coding Guidelines for Integral Constant Expressions describes how to work through the maze of compiler related bugs surrounding this tricky topic.

## Links

> The C++ Standard (ISO/IEC 14882) is available online as a PDF file from the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) Electronic Standards Store. The price is $US 18.00. The document is certainly not a tutorial, but is interesting to those who care about the precise specification of the language and the standard library.

Revised 28 January, 2002