[Mpi-21] Fwd: TODO - AUTHORS of MPI-2.1 - Workplan

[Rolf Rabenseifner]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:25:45 +0200
 "Rolf Rabenseifner" <rabenseifner_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Dear Bill, Tony, Rich, Adam, Dick, Jesper, George, David, Bronis, 
>      Rajeev, Jeff, and Alexander,
> 
> you are responsible for one ore more chapters of MPI-2.1 until the 
> meeting.
> 
> It is a tough schedule:
> -----------------------
> 
>  * Tues, April 1, my ROUND ONE is finished and the write token is
>          logically passed to all chapter authors:
>           - You have read access to the source (via SVN) and the pdf.
>           - You have write access to your local SVN copy. 
>           - You will get write access to the SVN in a few days.
>  * Fri., April 11, chapter authors have finished ROUND TWO.
>          - This is a hard deadline (because I've to go on travel)
>  * Sat., April 12, I will produce mpi-report.pdf as basis for review
>          (I cannot do later, because April 14-17, I'm on travel)
>  * Mon.-Thu., April 14-17, strong review by the reviewer group
>  * Fri., April 18, reviews - if necessary must be included -
>          by the chapter authors
>  * Sat., April 19, I will produce final mpi-report.pdf 
>          which is basis for
>          - final reviews through the reviewer group
>          - official reading at the April 28-30, 2008 meeting.
>          (I cannot do later because I'm on travel April 20-26)
> 
> The goals of your work as chapter author:
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> - Remove references to MPI-1 and MPI-2.
> - Substitute by MPI.
> - Necessary modifications to achieve this goal.
> 
> With this, we should have a single MPI-2.1 standard that does 
> not "know" the MPI-1 or MPI-2 history of individual functions.
> 
> ** This should be mainly a task in the area of chapter-introductions.
> ** Please, never change the wording of function definitions.
> 
> Exceptions: 
> - There are routines that are deprecated and that are
>   already referenced in a consistent way.
>   My recommendation:
>    Current wording: 
>      There are *new* function, and existing are now deprecated.
>    Proposal: 
>      There are functions, and there exist also deprecated functions 
>      with (nearly) same functionality but deprecated due to some lack
>      in the bindings (or functionality)
> - There is history information in the frontmatter.
> - there is a change-log annex with limited memory (only previous version)
> 
> Technical editing rule:
> -----------------------
> 
> You must identify all of your changes:
> 
> a) new/modified wording - you are highlighting your new/modified wording with:
> 
> \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEbegin% MPI-2.1 round-two - begin of modification
> .... your modified / new wording ....
> \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEendI% MPI-2.1 round-two - end of modification
> 
> b) Moved paragraphs, sentences, ... - you are highlighting the first word
>    of the moved text with:
>     
> \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEbegin% MPI-2.1 round-two - begin of text-move
> First-word
> \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEendI% MPI-2.1 round-two - ongoing text-move
> ... rest of the moved text....
> % MPI-2.1 round-two - end of text-move
> 
> Caution: These macros work only in black parts of the text.
> 
> In blue parts you must substitute 
>   \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEendI%
> by
>   \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEendII%
> 
> The highlighting is done with red color.
> (There are only a few other sentences from me magenta.
>  Therefore red should be the best to highlight the round-two modifications.)
> 
> Rsponsibilities:
> ----------------
> 
>  * Frontmatter        mpi-report.tex  Bill Gropp
>  * Acknowledgements   credits.tex     Rich Graham(text) + Rolf(emails-auth.)
>  * 1. Introduction    intro.tex       Bill Gropp
>  - 2. Terms           terms-2.tex     Tony Skjellum
>  * 3. Point-to-point  pt2pt.tex       Rich Graham
>  * 4. Collectives     coll.tex        Adam Moody
>  * 5. Groups, etc.    context.tex     Dick Treumann
>  - 6. Toplogies       topol.tex       Jesper Traeff
>  * 7. Environment     inquiry.tex     George Bosilca
>  - 8. Miscellany      misc-2.tex      Jesper Traeff
>  - 9. Process Crea... dynamic-2.tex   David Solt
>  - 10. One-sided Comm one-sided-2.tex Jepser Traeff
>  - 11. External Int.  ei-2.tex        Bronis de Supinski
>  - 12. IO             io-2.tex        Rajeev Thakur
>  - 13. Lang.Binding   binding-2.tex   Jeff Squyres
>  - 14. Profiling      prof.tex        Bronis de Supinski
>  - 15. Deprecated     deprecated.tex  Rolf Rabenseifner
>  - Annex A Lang.Bind. appLang*.tex, MAKE-APPLANG Alexander Supalov
>  - Annex B Change-log changes.tex     Rolf Rabenseifner
>  - Bibliography       refs.bib        Bill Gropp
>  - Index              MAKE-FUNC-INDEX Rolf Rabenseifner
> 
> Legende: - Chapter is mainly taken from MPI-1.1 or MPI-2.0, 
>            only small work expected 
>          * There was a significant merge, or new text, or ...,
>            more work expected 
> 
> I wish you a good start and good luck with your chapter.
> 
> Best regards
> Rolf
> 
> 
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