During my semester break, I took some time to contribute to Microsoft’s C++ standard template library implementation. My goal was to familiarize myself with elaborated open-source project management led by industry-leading companies.
I managed to get two out of three pull requests merged and released. Those included a bug fix and an optimization of the build system for internal dependencies on boost, which induced a circular binary dependency on the STL. Furthermore, the change dropped the requirement of a package manager in favor of a patched git submodule. I adopted these changes into the continuous integration pipeline using GitHub actions.