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News
- (28/06/07) We are trying to build a long term community of people that cares and constantly improve Boost docs. With that in mind new sections have been created: Subprojects, People, and Acknowledgments.
- (28/06/07) The community is growing: Peter Foley starts the SVG icons set project. Welcome Peter!
- (27/06/07) Help needed for a new project: Boost specific WikiMacros ( more information )
- (27/06/07) "Quickbook as a WikiProcessor for our Trac", let us know we can count on you! ( more information )
- (26/06/07) New project waiting for a developer: "Trac Syntax Coloring for Boostbook, Quickbook and Jamfiles". ( more information )
- (26/06/07) Initial Boost Docs organization proposal.
- (25/06/07) We have now a repository to organize our work. More information in the boost docs repository page.
- (25/06/07) The wiki is now easy to navigate!
- (24/06/07) Glyn Matthews volunteers to do the HTML to Docbook project. Thanks!
- (22/06/07) New page! Go and see the logo playgroung page.
- (22/06/07) The new docs are being tested by volunteers in different platforms and browsers. Go to the browser testing chart.
- (22/06/07) Some subprojects have been outlined so people willing to collaborate can jump in and became a part of the project.
- (22/06/07) A new translation tool has been released! ( more information )
- (21/06/07) Syntax highlighting, Revolution! ( more information )
- (19/06/07) Four really cool guys volunteers to translate docs to quickbook ( more information )
- (18/06/07) A few steps from XHTML 1.1 validation ( more information )
- (15/06/07) Box wrappers support in Boostbook ( more information )
- (12/06/07) New Grouped Links select boxes in header ( more information )
- (11/06/07) Linked CSE Google search box in header ( more information )
- (09/06/07) Test document for new styles ( more information )
How to help
These are small projects waiting for one or two folks to jump into them.
- Boost specific WikiMacros ( more information, project wiki page )
- Quickbook as a WikiProcessor for our Trac ( more information, project wiki page )
- Trac Syntax Coloring for Boostbook, Quickbook and Jamfiles. ( more information, project wiki page )
- Google Search Box project ( more information, project wiki page )
- Svg icons set project ( more information, project wiki page )
- Syntax highlighting project ( more information, project wiki page )
Other ways to help us
- Jump in as a browser tester ( More information in the browser testing chart page )
- Docs Translator ( More information in the docs translations project page )
- Comment about our work. We need constant feedback, please scream your opinion in the boost-docs list.
- If you are a designer, you can propose graphics to make boost look fancier. Go to the logo playground page and add your comments, logos and ideas.
- Lot of documentation on this Wiki is being written by non-native English speaker. Just reading and correcting expressions and paragraph will be appreciated.
Project Wiki
- Boost Docs repository
We are working on several boost tools to support the new features and improve their usability. This work is stored in boost sandbox. Go to the boost docs repository page to learn how it is organized. - Docs Translations
If we want to have an unified look and feel in boost docs, we need that all documentation be in a standard format. We are translating HTML based docs to dockbook format. There are a lot of documents to translate, we need more volunteers to help in the process. If you want to participate go to the docs translations project page. (We now have a bunch of tools that makes painless the process, please jump in!) - Unified look & feel
We are working in a new look for Boost and we are developing navigation tools to help users read the enormous amount of documentation aavailablein boost. Go to the unified look & feel project page to find what is new and rationales behind the ddecisions - Glue Docs
To do... - Subprojects
There are some small subprojects targeted to solve specific needs. Go to the subproject page to participate in them. - Browser testing
Volunteers are periodically testing the new docs in each platform and browser. Go to the browser testing chart. - Libraries Logos
Go to the logo playground page to find proposed logos for Boost libraries.
People
The people list here is working on this project of has done work on the tools in wich this work builds up. Some of them may not endorse all the proposal of the project, but all have gave their blessing to it. If you are working for this project and do not appear here, please add yourself to the list. If you are listed and want to share your mail and picture here, please add them.
Andrew Sutton
Cédric Venet
Darren Garvey
Douglas Gregor
Eric Niebler
Glyn Matthews
Jacob Robert Voytko
Joel de Guzman
John Maddock
Matias Capeletto
matias dot capeletto at gmail dot com
Peter Foley
Rene Rivera
Stjepan Rajko
Stuart Dootson
Acknowledgments
Big thanks to Daniel James, Janek Kozicki, João Abecasis, Matt Doyle, Michael Marcin, Paul A Bristow. You are welcome to became active members of the project, in that case please add yourself to the list above. Thanks to all the others that have help us with discussion on the boost list.
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