[VOTE] Vote to decide on production of a new PRIF revision

[Katherine Rasmussen]

Hello all,

     In the recent PRIF Committee meeting, there was agreement that there are changes to PRIF that are ready and important to get into a new revision soon. I have been asked by a Committee member to hold a vote on producing a new revision and in accordance with the PRIF governance, this email announces the PRIF Committee vote on a new revision and the technical content to be included.

      Vote: Do you support a new revision (revision 0.6) to be produced with the technical changes that are staged on the main branch of the prif repository? (The latest commit on the main branch at the time of the commencement of the vote is commit hash 28d0dedef47b3cf83dd).

Please note, this vote is only on the technical changes that will be added to revision 0.6. The non-normative changes, such as updating the author list, etc, will be discussed in PRs in the PRIF repo, so please watch out for upcoming PRs so that you are able to give feedback on those changes. If this vote passes, a candidate document will be produced with all changes, both technical and non-normative, and a comment period will commence before the revision is published. 

      The decision to produce a new revision with the current staged technical changes must receive approval from 50% of votes (excluding explicit abstentions) to be ratified. Only PRIF Committee members may vote and the options are Yes, No, or Abstain. This vote will remain open until 5 PM (Pacific Time) on Monday, August 11th. In order to register your vote, please reply all to this email and state your vote. If voting against, then your vote must include comments that explain your rationale.

Thank you for your time,

      Kate Rasmussen

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

      PRIF Community Lead

[Dan Bonachea]

Hello all - 

Since this vote began, a new technical design defect in PRIF 0.5 has been discovered. This defect affects PRIF's ability to handle the full generality of coarray dummy arguments as required by the Fortran standard. The defect is summarized in issue 140 in our private repo.

As such, I'm voting NO on the motion to ratify the current technical content in main. 

Reason: I want to defer publication of PRIF revision 0.6 until we can include a fix for this newly discovered generality defect in prif_alias_create. I encourage other committee members to also vote No for this reason.

In our upcoming PRIF committee meeting on Aug 11th, I'll be presenting a design proposal for a minor interface change to address the defect. Once that process is completed and the defect has been addressed in the working draft, then we can start a new PRIF 0.6 ratification vote.

Dan Bonachea

PRIF Technical Lead

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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[Katherine Rasmussen]

Hello all,

     Vote: I vote NO to ratify the current technical content in main to produce a new revision.

     Rationale: A defect in revision 0.5 was discovered this week, for which a fix has not yet been made. I think it is prudent to wait to produce a new revision that includes a fix for the recently discovered defect related to prif_alias_create. As such, I would like to postpone a new revision until we have addressed prif_alias_create and so I am voting no.

Thanks,

      Kate Rasmussen

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

      PRIF Community Lead

[Brad Richardson]

I concur with Dan and Kate, and so I also vote NO so as to postpone until the fix for PRIF_ALIAS_CREATE can be incorporated.

Regards,

Brad

[jean-didie...@sipearl.com]

Hello, like you, I vote NO so that we can include this fix for dummy arguments.

Regards,

Jean-Didier

[Katherine Rasmussen]

Hello all,
       The vote on supporting a new revision (revision 0.6) to be produced with the technical changes that are staged on the main branch of the prif repository at the start of the vote (commit hash 28d0dedef47b3cf83dd) has concluded. The result of the vote is as follows: Yes: 0, No: 4, Abstain: 2. Since 50% approval was not reached, the proposal to produce a new revision at this time has not passed. Each No vote cast contains reasoning behind said vote and can be found in this email thread for more details. A summary of the reasons behind the No votes is as follows: a defect has been found in the current revision regarding coarray dummy arguments that has not yet been addressed and the members that voted No would like to hold off on a new revision until a fix is provided for this issue.

Thank you for your time,

      Kate Rasmussen

      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

      PRIF Community Lead