Here's my suggestion: The draft is intended to alert people to very likely additions and even changes to the MPI standard. The draft should be in as good a shape as possible, so fixes like this to the text are reasonable. However, these are significant enough that for the Standard (not the draft), we'll clearly need another vote. We should postpone that vote until we're closer to issuing an official standard, since other things may change (for example, C++ or Fortran 200x bindings). Bill On Nov 2, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Torsten Hoefler wrote:

Bronis,

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It really seems to me that these changes exceed the guidelines that Rich and Bill have given for the release draft. While I understand the reasoon behind them, it is unclear that we will have reviewed them properly. For example, I think the wording below could use work. This is a clear error and can cause significant confusion on the user's and implementer's side. Most of the text is copied from the point-to-point section and is thus consistent with the remainder of the document (even though I don't like the wording there ("should") at all!).

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I am in transit to ANL right now so I cannot go over it properly until at least tonight... Please take your time and check. We are not intending to rush.

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Even then, this feels rushed. I don't think there is rush. We can release the document without this fix (with a known bug). That's why I commit each item separately. However, I'm against a release with bugs but that's not my decision.

Thanks, Torsten

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