$Id: 2005-12.text 592269 2007-11-06 04:40:24Z sebor $

Stdcxx status report for the calendar quarter ending in 12/2005:

This is the second quarterly report for stdcxx.

The stdcxx  community has spent  the last three months  working toward
version  4.1.3 of  the project.   The major  accomplishments  thus far
include  the  completion of  the  test  suite  driver (STDCXX-4),  the
migration of  a large number  (but not all)  of stdcxx tests  from the
Rogue C++  Standard Library test suite  to this driver and  to the ASF
Subversion  repository  (STDCXX-4),  and  the creation  of  a  Windows
configuration and build infrastructure (STDCXX-5, STDCXX-13). 

The  successful  completion of  these  objectives  marks an  important
milestone  for the  stdcxx project.   To facilitate  the  migration of
existing users of  the Rogue Wave C++ Standard  Library to stdcxx, the
stdcxx  community is  currently in  the process  of  releasing version
4.1.3 of  the project.   This release has  been scheduled  to coincide
with the release of the Rogue Wave C++ Standard Library 4.1.3 on which
stdcxx  is based.   A vote  to release  stdcxx 4.1.3  is under  way on
stdcxx-dev.

In other  news, the stdcxx PPMC  recently voted to extend  an offer of
committership to  Anton Pevtsov.  Anton  is the author of  the Windows
build infrastructure and his help with porting the test suite over the
last few months  has been essential.  In addition,  in preparation for
graduation and  the forming of a  PMC, the stdcxx PPMC  has started to
discuss  expanding its  membership  from the  current  5 (including  3
mentors) to involve other active committers.

Going  forward,  the  most  important  goals  of  the  growing  stdcxx
community continue to be to increase the visibility of the project and
further  increase  the number  as  well  as  diversity of  its  users,
contributors, and  committers, finish  porting the stdcxx  test suite,
and implement  a complete test  harness for the project  to facilitate
automated nightly  testing.  Other goals include expanding  the set of
platforms  to  Apple Darwin  and  other  BSD-based operating  systems,
enhancing support for the C++ Standard Library extensions described in
the (Draft) Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions.

Martin Sebor