From jwagener@trc.amoco.com Wed Aug 26 01:42:35 1992 Received: from noc.msc.edu by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA27437; Wed, 26 Aug 92 01:42:35 +0200 Received: from uc.msc.edu by noc.msc.edu (5.65/MSC/v3.0.1(920324)) id AA05515; Tue, 25 Aug 92 18:42:35 -0500 Received: from [129.230.11.2] by uc.msc.edu (5.65/MSC/v3.0z(901212)) id AA24198; Tue, 25 Aug 92 18:42:37 -0500 Received: from trc.amoco.com (apctrc.trc.amoco.com) by netserv2 (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA04963; Tue, 25 Aug 92 18:42:33 CDT Received: from crmac1 by trc.amoco.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25089; Tue, 25 Aug 92 18:42:26 CDT Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 18:42:25 CDT Message-Id: <9208252342.AA25089@trc.amoco.com> From: Jerrold L. Wagener To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: draft X3J3/92-181: X3J3 Organization and Major Activities X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 To X3J3: This is the "organization" document that I promised you yesterday. Please accept it as a draft, to be revised based on your input prior to its inclusion in the next premeeting distribution, and implemented at the November X3J3 meeting. I have taken the liberty of making tentative subgroup assignments without discussing this with most of you, though in some cases the assignments reflect requests that I have received to date. I have tried to be sensitive to members interests and to put together effective teams; however, I've no doubt made mistakes in some cases, so please let me know if your specific interests are significantly different from what appears below. I would also like your input on the organization itself; are these the right subgroups? As time progresses there no doubt will be the need for different subgroups, but maybe there's some different needs now. The comments recently on the net, for example, suggest that perhaps we need an X3J3/OOP now, and I have received suggestions for at least four other subgroups. All of these are good suggestions, but as yet they mostly don't quite meet my "acid test" of specific charter and products. If you want to suggest another subgroup please help me with identifying a specific charter and set of products; each subgroup, me thinks, needs to have a specific thing it is going to produce. Things that don't belong to a specialized subgroup are, in the meantime, automatically the responsibility of X3J3/JOD. As for X3J3/OOP, if you think we should do that please let me know what you think should be its charter and products, and of course I would like to know who would be interested in serving on such a subgroup. Clearly the intent of all this is to be able to do, as they say, a quality job, on time, and within budget (whatever that last one means for us). So with that, let me have your comments on draft 92-181 (and the premeeting document should look better, as well as be an improved revision). Thanks. Jerry * * * * * * * * * * * * * * DRAFT X3J3/92-181 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * For the past year X3J3 has focused primarily on processing interpretations and other activities related to Fortran 90 maintenance and defect management. Because WG5 decided at its 1992 meeting to produce a revision to Fortran 90 in the 1995-96 time frame, with development done by X3J3, significant attention must now be devoted to revision activities as well as to maintenance activities. Fortunately the maintenance activities are well in hand and the volume of maintenance requests appears to be decreasing; therefore X3J3 can and should begin serious revision activities. This document describes the X3J3 organization, major activities, and major products for the next year or so, assuming roughly equal emphasis is given to maintenance and revision. Adjustments to this plan will be made as needed, for example if maintenance requirements decrease and additional functional areas require specialized subgroups. Major X3J3 Products ------------------- The major products of X3J3 are documents. In some respects the most important products are the documents that are continuously used and updated, over a period of many meetings. These were formerly called X3J3 standing documents (and given X3J3 RSS numbers), but in 1993 will be numbered in the manner of all other documents (e.g., X3J3/93-007). For a document that spans years, the same sequence number will be assigned each year (e.g., X3J3/94-007, X3J3/95- 007, etc.) to facilitate use of these often referenced documents. In the following descriptions just the Rdouble-ohS numbers will be used (e.g., document 007, or just 007). The major X3J3 documents are: 003 - X3J3 Processes and Procedures 004 - X3J3 JOD 005 - X3J3 Resolutions and Responses to WG5 Resolutions 006 - Fortran 90 Maintenance 007 - Draft Revision to Fortran 90 Document 003 - X3J3 Processes and Procedures: This is currently X3J3/S15. It contains procedures X3J3 uses that augment those described in the X3/SD-2. For example it contains guidelines for hosts of X3J3 meetings and the detailed procedures that X3J3 uses for processing Fortran 90 maintenance requests. This document is updated as needed. The interim editor of 003 is M. Hoffert. Document 004 - The X3J3 JOD (database of needs and suggested requirements): This is currently X3J3/S17, the content of which is nominally appendix F of X3J3/S8.104 (features removed from Fortran 8x). The purpose of this document is to collect into a single database those items that X3J3 believes represent the functional needs and suggested requirements for future revisions of the Fortran standard. This document constitutes X3J3Us input to a similar database that WG5 maintains at the international level. Document 004 will be updated after every X3J3 meeting and continuously made available to WG5. The editor for 004 is the subgroup X3J3/JOD. Document 005 - X3J3 Resolutions and Responses to WG5 Resolutions: This is currently X3J3/S14. The WG5 standing document WG5/SD-4 (Strategic Plan for Fortran Standardization) calls for official communication between WG5 and the primary development body via R&R (Resolutions and Responses) documents. Since X3J3 is the primary development body for the next revision of the international standard, document 005 is intended as the X3J3 part of this communication. Responses to WG5 resolutions will normally be incorporated into 005 soon after each WG5 meeting, and resolutions will normally be placed in 005 at each X3J3 meeting. Thus document 005 will be updated after every X3J3 meeting and continuously made available to WG5. The interim editor for 005 is J. Wagener. Document 006 - Fortran 90 Maintenance (corrections, clarifications, and interpretations for F90): This is currently X3J3/S20. It contains the results of all Fortran 90 maintenance activities, including corrections, clarifications, and interpretations. Items in this document that have been approved by WG5 will be incorporated into the 1995-96 draft revision, document 007, and will comprise a major portion of the changes of this revision from Fortran 90. This document is updated after every X3J3 meeting and made continuously available to WG5. The editor for 006 is A. Tait. Document 007 - Draft Revision to Fortran 90 (to be submitted as a CD in 1995): This document currently exists only as the base document for the 1995-96 draft revision. That base document is, of course, the Fortran 90 standard, ISO/IEC 1539:1991. The revision will contain the maintenance edits from document 006, as approved by WG5, and any additional changes approved by X3J3 that are developed from (a) requirements specified by WG5 and (b) editorial improvements proposed by the X3J3 editorial subgroup. Document 007 will be first issued following the February 1993 X3J3 meeting, updated at each X3J3 meeting thereafter, and made available continuously to WG5. The editor for 007 is the subgroup X3J3/editorial. X3J3 Organization ----------------- X3J3 functions mainly through the use of small subgroups to prepare material for the full committee. The tentative subgroup structure and initial memberships, general charter for each subgroup, and products of each subgroup are as follow. The subgroups are: X3J3/F90maint - defect management, responsible for 006 X3J3/JOD - Journal of Development, responsible for 004 X3J3/parallel - responsible for all aspects of parallel computing in Fortran X3J3/posix - responsible for all aspects of POSIX binding to Fortran X3J3/editorial - editorial subgroup responsible for the draft revision, 007 X3J3/F90maint charter: design and maintain document 006 process requests for interpretations and clarifications of Fortran 90 propose new 006 entries and entry updates products: document 006 proposals for changes to document 006 members: the members of this subgroup are organized into small (subsub)groups to process the various maintenance activities in parallel; the subgroup may develop its own internal organization, but an initial configuration could be as follows; the 006-edits group completes informational fields of 006 and improves the editorial quality of 006; the interp groups develop responses to specific requests for interpretation and clarification head: A. Tait 006-edits: J. Himer D. Mattoon R. Lauer interp-1: M. Ellis interp-2: W. Leonard R. Hendrickson J. Oglesby H. Katz S. Whitlock interp-3: R. Bleikamp interp-4: K. Hirchert T. Lahey J. Martin R. Kelble A. Marusak X3J3/JOD charter: design and maintain document 004 review the Fortran 90 public review comments, extracting appropriate items for 004 receive input from various X3J3 subgroups and other sources for entries in 004 develop any requirements specified by WG5 for the 1995-96 revision that are not assigned to other X3J3 subgroups products: document 004 proposals for the 1995-96 draft revision, document 007 members: M. Hoffert L. Meissner G. Millard L. Moss (head) I. Philips X3J3/parallel charter: be the X3J3 focal point for parallel computing perform the coordinating liaison function with X3H5 maintain coordination with HPFF contribute parallel computing material to X3J3/JOD develop any parallel requirements specified by WG5 for the 1995-96 revision products: tutorials for X3J3 on parallel computing current X3H5 documents on language independent model and Fortran 90 binding review of the X3H5 binding proposal current HPFF documents review of the HPFF proposal proposals for addition to document 004 proposals for the 1995-96 draft revision, document 007 members: K.Bierman L. OUGara G. Steele J. Steidel (head) X3J3/posix charter: be the X3J3 focal point for POSIX coordinate with IEEE P1003.9 contribute POSIX-related material to X3J3/JOD develop any POSIX-related requirements specified by WG5 for the 1995-96 revision products: tutorials for X3J3 on POSIX-related items current P1003.9 document (P1003.19) on the Fortran 90 binding review of the P1003.19 binding proposals for addition to document 004 proposals for the 1995-96 revision, document 007 members: J. Brixius R.Weaver (head) X3J3/editorial charter: maintain the 1995-96 draft revision, document 007, starting with the Fortran 90 standard, ISO/IEC 1539:1991 propose editorial improvements to document 007, and incorporate those approved by X3J3 incorporate into 007 those items from 006 approved by WG5 incorporate into 007 proposals approved by X3J3 that are developed from requirements specified by WG5 products: document 007 proposals for editorial improvements to document 007 members: W. Brainerd (head) R. Maine H. Lauson M. North * * * * * * * * * * * * * end DRAFT X3J3/92-181 * * * * * * * * * * * * *