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

[Bill Long]

> On Mar 22, 2021, at 3:14 PM, Van Snyder via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> Will we still have "J3" minutes that use J3 paper numbers, on the J3 web site?

The J3 paper numbers are incorporated into the and of the file names in the PL22.3 official minutes. 

Cheers,
Bill

> 
> On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 12:01 -0700, Brian Friesen via J3 wrote:
>> 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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