[J3] Meeting 223 minutes on incits.org, and modified meeting minutes format

Brian Friesen bfriesen at lbl.gov
Mon Mar 22 19:01:00 UTC 2021


Hi everyone,

below is something for your information only; no action is required from you.

In a few minutes you should receive a notification from incits.org
that the meeting 223 minutes approved by INCITS have been uploaded.
You may also notice that the paper numbers in the minutes have a
different format than the traditional xx-yyy format. This is due to
the database that INCITS uses to store meeting documents, which we are
required to use for INCITS to approve our minutes.

Please note that this modification to the paper numbers in the
INCITS-approved minutes does not affect the papers uploaded to
j3-fortran.org; rather, it affects only those papers uploaded to
incits.org, to which the INCITS-approved minutes must refer.

The INCITS database uses the document numbering format:

PL22.3-<4-digit-year>-<auto-generated-5-digit-number-<whatever-you-want-afterwards>

where <auto-generated-5-digit-number> is a counter which increments
for each unique document uploaded to incits.org in a given year. There
is no meaningful correspondence between
<auto-generated-5-digit-number> and the traditional J3 paper number,
so this 5-digit number can be ignored in most cases.

Revised papers in incits.org insert a 3-digit revision number between
<auto-generated-5-digit-number> and <whatever-you-want-afterwards>.

For "regular" papers, I have chosen <whatever-you-want-afterwards> to
take the form "mNNN-<J3-paper-number>" where NNN is the meeting number
where the paper was discussed. For special kinds of papers, like draft
agendas, minutes, certain standing documents, etc., then
<whatever-you-want-afterwards> may take a different form, such as
"m223-minutes."

As an example, paper 21-123.txt at meeting 223 was the 31st document
uploaded to incits.org in 2021, so its name became
PL22.3-2021-00031-m223-21-123.txt. Revision 21-123r1.txt then replaced
it, and so its name became PL22.3-2021-00031-001-m223-21-123.txt where
the "r1" suffix became the "001" prefix. An "r2" revision on
j3-fortran.org would become a "002" prefix in incits.org, and so on.

The translation from the traditional paper number to INCITS paper
number is a bit clumsy, but I think it is unambiguous.


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