Welcome to the Boost Trac

​Boost is a collection of free, peer-reviewed C++ libraries. This Trac is used to aid in the development of Boost, by tracking software issues, documenting Boost development procedures, and providing navigation aids to the Boost source code repository. From this Trac, you can:

• Access the Boost Subversion Repository
• Submit patches, bug reports, and feature requests. Please:
  • search first to avoid creating duplicates.
  • Use the Settings link at the top of this page to let us know your email address even if you don't have a Trac userid. Otherwise we won't be able to follow up with you about your bug report.
  • Do not suggest features unless you can identify a particular Boost library in which they belong—new libraries arise differently.
• ​Change your Subversion password

Getting a Trac/SVN Userid

Trac userids can be had on request by sending email to ​boost-owner-AT-lists.boost.org describing your role. Userids are normally granted to maintainers and authors of prospective (“sandbox”) and accepted Boost libraries, people working on the Boost website, and people contributing significant content to this Wiki.

If you are just submitting bug reports, you probably don't need a Trac userid, but please use the Settings link at the top of this page to enter your email address before submitting your report. Unless you take this step, we won't be able to follow up with you about your issue (and we often need more information in order to do anything useful with a report) and you won't be notified of progress or changes to its status.

If your request for a userid is granted you'll receive an invitation to register from “SVNManager” and you'll have total freedom to choose your new userid and password. If your role includes Subversion access your SVN userid and pasword will be the same as your Trac userid and password. Please:

• if you had a SourceForge userid and Boost tickets were assigned to you on the ​old SourceForge trackers, either pick the same userid or reassign all your tickets imported from SourceForge to your new userid as described in TicketWorkflow.
• choose a userid that is easily identified as you (e.g. use your full name)!
• use the Settings link at the top of this page to enter your email address. Unless you take this step, tickets can't be assigned to you and any bugs you report will appear to be from an unreachable anonymous user.
• read TicketWorkflow

Quick Access to the Boost Subversion Repository

You can ​browse the Boost Subversion repository online or retrieve Boost via a ​Subversion client. Most users will be interested in either the stable or the development branch of Boost:

• The development branch is available at ​http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk
• The sandbox is available at ​http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox

To check out the Boost development trunk using the command-line Subversion tool, svn, use:

svn co ​http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk boost-trunk

At any time, you can update your Boost development branch (which now lives in boost-trunk) with:

svn up

Please refer to BoostSubversion for more information about the Boost Subversion repository.

Releases

There is a major effort underway to improve Boost Testing and Release practices and procedures.

• Release Schedule
• Suggestions for Release 1.36.0
• Development and Release Practices
• Release Manager's Checklist
• Release Procedures for Developers (needs updating, perhaps merge with Development and Release Practices)

Projects

• Summer of Code Projects
• Sandbox Template
• Boost.Graph version 2
• Boost.Iostreams Roadmap
• Implementing a mini Boost.Fusion in C++0x

Infrastructure

• Testing
• Web Site
• In progress: CMake
• Improving Boost Docs
• Information relating to Boost Tools

Platform Champions

Platform Champions are experts that Developers can turn to when they have a problem with a particular compiler or operating system.

People

Go to the people page. It has very few entries at the moment, please add yourself.