From owner-sc22wg5+sc22wg5-dom8=www.open-std.org@open-std.org Wed Jul 12 11:19:22 2017 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www.open-std.org Received: by www.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id B5CE03571C9; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:19:22 +0200 (CEST) Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from smtp-out-1.tiscali.co.uk (smtp-out-1.tiscali.co.uk [62.24.135.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594E3356E07 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:19:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] ([212.139.93.115]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id VDnhdNR2pC3NeVDnhd74WS; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:19:18 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [212.139.93.115] Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.5885) Preview of possible feature survey To: WG5 List References: <20170702233407.599BA35828D@www.open-std.org> From: John Reid Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:19:13 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170702233407.599BA35828D@www.open-std.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfJ9USWiX5ikse6ecTvh66fTzEuuC59/Ol98wd4F41cPIQekQdcJEQi3evWZWPVLHwWy1IDgFhg1XyRnlY+huBAqwBoCEKSPi7o5gZUS1GgWWhF4e+vqW hB+dAsmi1Pi/Y/hGgiamsrtJnkYEjdqvNoOoRxuefXwQekB9mEWWuPkXkiaZQrZ8ZId66c6Yk1GenTLYoUFA7Q+l9NsCWYYontc= Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Steve, Sorry to be slow in commenting on this. I am not happy about have a list like this. It suggests that the committee is seriously considering all these and that some sort of vote will determine which are chosen. I think it would be better just to have the open invitation to make a suggestion, with a full explanation of how they would use it and why it would make a big difference in their application. Cheers, John. Steve Lionel wrote: > At Garching we agreed to survey the user community to see what features > they wanted added to Fortran. I volunteered to create such a survey. > > I have put together a sample survey which you can preview at > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Preview/?sm=mQpu1omN0yqfQzTHlOh1EINqgBiSYtQgDwCuXU3_2BipuWire738v3KF9WXKQ5T0Q2 > You can comment in the preview (at least I think you can) by clicking on > the little speech box icons, or you can send me your comments. > > In this iteration I have asked the user to rank the features, which is > helpful in establishing priorities, but an alternative is star ratings > or asking to rank each option on a 0-5 scale. These would get a > different perspective, but I am uncertain which is more useful to us. > > I look forward to your comments. Also if you have suggestions to add to > the list of features, let me know. Everything about this is up in the air. > > On a semi-unrelated note, on a suggestion from John and after > consultation with Malcolm, I have registered the domain wg5-fortran.org > and am setting up a web site under that domain. This would have the WG5 > content currently hosted by NAG. When that is done, we can have the NAG > URL redirect to the new one for a while. > > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > ukfortran mailing list > https://lists.accu.org/mailman/listinfo/ukfortran