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

[John Reid]

Steve Lionel wrote:
> 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.

How about requiring that giving a rank to a feature be accompanied by an 
explanation of how they would use it and why it would make a big 
difference in their application?

John.

>
> Steve
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:19 AM, John Reid <John.Reid at stfc.ac.uk
> <mailto: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
>     <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 <http://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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