Re: F2008 draft

*** Hendrickson wrote:


Joe Krahn wrote:

It looks like the draft of F2008 is available at J3:
http://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/06 files 06-007.*

Does anyone here have an idea when the public comment period will be? Are non-member comments accepted before then?


There's also a schedule available on the same site. The
current DRAFT is a FIRST DRAFT. The schedule calls for the
final draft to go out for review around August of 2007.

Comments are always welcome (although not everyone who reads
c.l.f agrees). However, ISO and WG5 do impose some
structure on what can be done when. Roughly speaking:
1) gather requirements, 2) cut the requirements list down to
something reasonable, 3) put that stuff into the standard,
4) integrate and polish, 5) review process.

Right now, we're sort of between 3 and 4.

Comments like "feature X is broken because ..." are always welcome.

Comments like "feature Y should be enhanced" are still sort
of welcome, but you'd need to make a pretty good case for
any significant enhancement.

Comments like "hey, you forgot big feature Z..." have little
chance of being acted on.

The difference between "broke", "enhance", and "forgot" is
a judgment call :(.

At least, that's my personal opinion of the current status.


(Also mentioned in reply to Richard Maine:)
I am wondering if the above order of progress is strictly for internal development, and whether the public comment period has a chance of getting a few features that apply to an earlier stage of the development cycle. In other words, official public comments are handled only at the end, right?. In which case, they are not very useful, other than giving some ideas for the next revision.

Alternatively, maybe it is worth trying to submit some comments earlier than the official public review period?

Thanks,
Joe Krahn
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