Which thing specifically is broken in 4.0 that wasn’t broken in 3.1? > On Mar 24, 2021, at 5:09 PM, Rolf Rabenseifner via mpi-forum > <mpi-forum@lists.mpi-forum.org> wrote: > > 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
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