[Mpi-forum] MPI Forum voting rules: new version

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

On Feb 11, 2013, at 3:16 PM, William Gropp <wgropp at illinois.edu> wrote:

> My concern here is that if meetings are less frequent that every 6-8 weeks (the original MPI schedule), this approach drags the process out long enough to create a new failure mode - too much time elapses between votes.  I don't think that you can ignore the amount of time between votes.  

Agreed.  I should point out that this proposal is effectively a codification of the process that we have used for years (with some tweaks and clarifications, obviously).

> I don't have a good solution to this, other than to permit an alternate, non-meeting mechanism for one of these events (e.g., perhaps the first vote could be done by email if more than 4 months will elapse between the reading and the second vote).

That could be a viable idea.  But I see this as a separate -- albeit related -- issue to this voting rules proposal.  

If someone makes a proposal to allow virtual ballots, then these voting rules can certainly have their language softened to allow ballots to occur in virtual scenarios (not just physical MPI Forum meetings).

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