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May you give us an overview of current QuantLib plans?

Posted by Piter Dias-4 on Aug 10, 2009; 10:16am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/May-you-give-us-an-overview-of-current-QuantLib-plans-tp12936.html

Maintainers,

Hi.

I know there is plan to deliver QuantLib 1.0 as a stable and production version. In fact, I believe we already has production users of QuantLib, but I believe that whole idea is the project itself would change its status to a Production software with this release.

However, it also means that some contributions would have to wait more in order to not cause a mis function in the 1.0 version.

May you give us (user and eventual contributor) an overview about what your are doing and current plans? I have myself some questions:
  1. Are you already have a desirable release date? I mean some data you wish to deliver but doesn't know if  you will be able to?
  2. If new  classes and functions  are not supposed  to go to trunk as fast as it was, how could we keep people motivation (everyone that contributes good stuff want to see it code in the library, right)? Are you more open to include test suite contributions to this new release?
  3. What is the experimental folder really is? Would you deliver it in the QuantLib 1.0? What the polices to put or delete code there are?
  4. We have a couple of examples and hundred of tests. Do you believe that it is a problem for new users? I mean, I already contribute with test but never though about examples. Do you expect more examples in the library or test suite itself is THE example?
  5. What the relationship of QuantLibXL and QuantLib currently is? I see that QuantLibXL deploys some time after QuantLib. Once QuantLib is growing fast, the gap between both are growing too. We are you doing about it? What we (user, contributors and eventual contributors) are supposed to do about that?
  6. QuantLibXL spreadsheets are not so easy to use. Everyone, including me, already had (or have) problems using it. Do you expect that users contribute with some spreadsheets, pretty like they to with QuantLib test suite? I believe would could have a set of simpler but based on proven examples (papers, books chapters, QuantLib test suite, etc...) spreadsheets.
I appreciate any reply and would like you thank you for this project.

Regards,



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