Dear Martin, Bill and Wesley and all, > Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns - we will also > address > this in the meeting next week.
Issue 466 is read at the February meeting and contains required corrections to the current version of the draft (mpi-4-rc-june), which includes unintented changes to the MPI-3.1 I/O interface. Therefore, it cannot be posponed to MPI-4.1. Best regards Rolf ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Main MPI Forum mailing list" <mpi-forum@lists.mpi-forum.org> > To: "Main MPI Forum mailing list" <mpi-forum@lists.mpi-forum.org> > Cc: "Martin Schulz" <schu...@in.tum.de> > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 7:55:11 PM > Subject: [Mpi-forum] Process towards MPI 4.0 / Final Steps > Hi all, > > For those of you who had to miss the virtual MPI Forum meeting today, we had a > discussion on the updated process towards MPI 4.0 and how to handle the final > tickets. > > The recording is at (with the right time-marker to this discussion): > https://youtu.be/h9MO-BmbfdQ?t=2125 > > The slides are at: > https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-forum.github.io/raw/master/slides/2021/03/2021-03-24-rcm-frm-procedures.pptx > > The quick summary is that we will limit the tickets that are still considered > for MPI 4.0 to only emergency fixes that avoid breaking the standard and that > are directly related to new items/procedures/concepts/text added specifically > for MPI 4.0. Otherwise we fear (and we are seeing this already) that we may > get > clogged up with more and more changes that will not get the needed vetting and > - equally important - that we run the risk of some issues not being accepted > during the vote, which means the FRM is not the final document, which is > problematic. > > Wesley will be going through the board and classifying all issues based on > that > (see also slide 11) and then move tickets that do not meet the criteria to MPI > 4.1 (changes that are already in, will stay , though). For this, we agreed to > temporarily assume the role of a release manager that will advance tickets > once > they are ready (and that includes sufficient reviews by the CCs) and meet the > criteria. > > Note, though, this does not mean that the items tagged as 4.1 are postponed > indefinitely - the plan is to start working on them right after MPI 4.0, if > time permits, already in the June meeting. We should strive for getting a > cleaned-up MPI 4.1 out the door soon, preferably before we add (m)any new > items, but that part we will also discuss in the June meeting. > > Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns - we will also > address > this in the meeting next week. > > Thanks! > > Martin > (also in the name of Bill and Wesley) > > > > -- > Prof. Dr. Martin Schulz, Chair of Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems > Department of Informatics, TU-Munich, Boltzmannstraße 3, D-85748 Garching > Member of the Board of Directors at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) > Email: schu...@in.tum.de > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mpi-forum mailing list > mpi-forum@lists.mpi-forum.org > https://lists.mpi-forum.org/mailman/listinfo/mpi-forum -- Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner . . . . . . . . . .. email rabenseif...@hlrs.de . High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) . phone ++49(0)711/685-65530 . University of Stuttgart . . . . . . . . .. fax ++49(0)711 / 685-65832 . Head of Dpmt Parallel Computing . . . www.hlrs.de/people/rabenseifner . Nobelstr. 19, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany . . . . (Office: Room 1.307) . _______________________________________________ mpi-forum mailing list mpi-forum@lists.mpi-forum.org https://lists.mpi-forum.org/mailman/listinfo/mpi-forum