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Re: Quantlib project

Posted by Ferdinando M. Ametrano-2 on Mar 29, 2002; 8:02am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Quantlib-project-tp1939p1940.html

Hi André

you wrote:
>What is your policy on taking on new developers?
There isn't a real policy. Actually I've granted cvs write access to
whoever asked me, being confident people are rationale and CVS is good at
reverting unwanted hanges.
This helped to have a huge number of developers listed at
http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=12740 even if only
about 8 of them are really active.

A "new developer intoduction" is available at
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/quantlib/QuantLib/dev_tools/newdeveloperintro.txt?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

>  Who looks after the state/stability/quality assurance/validity
>of models/etc... of the project?
The developers themselves, we don't have a formal scientific committee.
There is a Python test suite that is run daily, and almost daily the source
distribution/compilation/test is carried out on different platforms/compilers.

>  Have the number of users/developers increased since the project started?
As far as developers are concerned, please see above.
Users ... well it's hard to say. The library download statistics is
available at
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=12740,
but I don't know about real users.
I for one use the library in my work, RiskMap uses it in its products.
I've been told by a couple of guys they use QuantLib in their own work,
officially or unofficially, but I'm not allowed to give details.

>I have picked up on a few missing things that is mostly specific to
>the S.A market but those are minors.
please share with us, if you can.

>looking forward to becoming part of the
>bigger picture!
I really hope you will get involved! You're welcome.

ciao -- Nando