Bill: Doesn't it seem like it would be useful to partition the changes into the issues that motivate them? It would seem we could use the ticket number as a way to do that. Otherwise, it will be hard to tell minor wording changes that can be considered individually from those that need acceptance of a more significant overall change. Bronis On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, William Gropp wrote:

We don't need tickets for edits to the document - tickets were the appropriate way to manage minor corrections to the document but don't help the process of developing a new or greatly revised chapter. The RMA group has two proposals on its wiki, both of which are in the context of complete chapters. A drawback to tickets was they made it possible to think that by reading the ticket, the issue was understood. This caused several problems in the prior rounds, and would be more serious here.

So, no ticket is needed. Following the written instructions, a zero (0) may be used.

Bill

On Oct 30, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Bronis R. de Supinski wrote:

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2. You need to annotate your proposed changes with ticket numbers. I suggest that we need separate tickets for each of the major additions. Isee that ticket 217:

https://BLOCKEDsvn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/ticket/217

covers the helper threads proposal. We will need ticekts for the shared memory extensions and endpoints.

I thought the process was changing out of using tickets for the changes for MPI-3. If not we can update this once all the tickets have been created.

The change tracking macros include a ticket number field. My understanding is that for simple wording changes for things like grammatical issues on which the chapter reaches consensus then we can use "ticket 0". For more significant changes, like major additions, my understanding is that they are still supposed to use a separate ticket. However, the revised text should be in LaTex so that we vote on it as part of the ticket.

Bill and/or Rich should confirm or correct.

Bronis

William Gropp Deputy Director for Research Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign