Peter Turcan Q3 2023 Status
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Posted on October 27, 2023
- Wrote a Version Control topic, including sections on the super-project, breaking changes, and filing issues, for the Contributor Guide
- Wrote a Continuous Integration (CI) topic, with sections on the range of tools available, and including best practices and links to good examples
- Converted the legacy About Boost doc to a new topic on Boost History, adding sections on libraries and timelines
- Changed all references to Boost.build to B2, providing a consistent URL to link to for B2
- Improved navigation to the Boost license from the User Guide
- Converted legacy HTML documents for the Contributor Guide to markdown, using Pandoc then manual clean up
- Corrected ease-of-use and accuracy issues with Getting Started with Linux
- Corrected library naming issues (Windows vs Linux)
- Updated the legacy Headers and Separate Compilation topics
- Updated and clarified the section on creating New Issues
- Removed unnecessary escape characters from several topics in the Contributor Guide
- Wrote a topic on library Release Notes, adding best practices and links to good examples
- Reworked the Templates documentation, compressing into one file and updating
- Wrote a simpler introduction to Testing
- Updated the Testing Policy topic, breaking the Testing sections into more manageable chunks
- Reviewed the documentation for the proposed Boost.async library
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