(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5914) Preview of possible feature survey

[Steve Lionel]

John,

Thanks for your comments.

Simply asking for suggestions doesn't provide us with information on what
users think is important. We ARE considering (or have considered in the
past) many of these items, and my intent is to populate the list with new
suggestions as they come in. The survey allows people to suggest additional
items.

We are not at all bound by this, but having ranked-choice voting encourages
users to recognize that there are tradeoffs and that we can't do everything.

Steve

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:19 AM, John Reid <John.Reid at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Sorry to be slow in commenting on this. I am not happy about have a list
> like this. It suggests that the committee is seriously considering all
> these and that some sort of vote will determine which are chosen. I
> think it would be better just to have the open invitation to make a
> suggestion, with a full explanation of how they would use it and why it
> would make a big difference in their application.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John.
>
> Steve Lionel wrote:
> > At Garching we agreed to survey the user community to see what features
> > they wanted added to Fortran. I volunteered to create such a survey.
> >
> > I have put together a sample survey which you can preview at
> > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Preview/?sm=
> mQpu1omN0yqfQzTHlOh1EINqgBiSYtQgDwCuXU3_2BipuWire738v3KF9WXKQ5T0Q2
> > You can comment in the preview (at least I think you can) by clicking on
> > the little speech box icons, or you can send me your comments.
> >
> > In this iteration I have asked the user to rank the features, which is
> > helpful in establishing priorities, but an alternative is star ratings
> > or asking to rank each option on a 0-5 scale. These would get a
> > different perspective, but I am uncertain which is more useful to us.
> >
> > I look forward to your comments. Also if you have suggestions to add to
> > the list of features, let me know. Everything about this is up in the
> air.
> >
> > On a semi-unrelated note, on a suggestion from John and after
> > consultation with Malcolm, I have registered the domain wg5-fortran.org
> > and am setting up a web site under that domain. This would have the WG5
> > content currently hosted by NAG. When that is done, we can have the NAG
> > URL redirect to the new one for a while.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
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