[J3] (SC22WG5.6286) SC22 Resolutions

[Steve Lionel]

On 9/3/2020 1:53 PM, Van Snyder via J3 wrote:
> Many good ideas for Fortran have been proposed, agreed, developed 
> somewhat, and then dropped to meet the schedule. If more had been done 
> between meetings, these projects could have been completed.

Indeed - that's the goal of the fortran-proposals github ans the 
j3-fortran.org discussion board. The former is an incubator of ideas for 
a future revision, where ideas can be fleshed out. The latter takes the 
place of "subgroup time" at meetings where work items and papers can be 
developed and discussed. Both also keep ideas alive between revisions, 
and also serve to not need to rehash discussions that have occurred 
previously.

> Failing that, a multi-release schedule should be developed so that 
> significant and important projects are not dropped completely just to 
> meet a single release schedule.

I would argue that we're already moving towards that, with the 
commitment to develop a generics/templates feature for F202Y. These two 
concepts are not mutually exclusive.

Steve