Re: Possible funding of gfortran work

[Andre Vehreschild <vehre@gmx.de>]

Hi Benson,

thank you for your input. Comments are inline:

> Maybe add Quantum Espresso:
> https://www.quantum-espresso.org/

done

> R and Octave may also be good examples of use cases.

Mhhh, both are not written in Fortran, right? I don't feel tempted to
include other programming languages into the references list. It feels odd to
me. Any thoughts, anyone?


> Some gfortran work has been done as company sponsored in that
> individuals using the compiler needed it for company work and could work
> on the compiler on company time.  If a large proportion is voluntary and
> companies only sponsor small extensions and bug fixes, one might assume
> that if the funding is given, once it is finished, the chances of
> further work will be very limited.  Maybe one can tie into the GNU
> compiler collection as well, emphasizing the longevity of the project
> and usefulness of the funding in adding additional capabilities and
> cleaning up code contributions. Then indicate that new parts that this
> proposal addresses have primarily been voluntary because they are not
> yet ready for production use, and this project would make them ready for
> production use so that in future maintenance efforts can be made by the
> community (both voluntary and sponsored).

I have added a paragraph about sponsoring of general gfortran work:

GFortran in general stems from a merge of projects that have been supported by
academic research, commercial needs and in large parts volunteers. Funding by
companies was mostly done by allowing employees to work on features required for
the company and donating the code.

Is that what you were trying to add?

Regards,
	Andre
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Andre Vehreschild * Email: vehre ad gmx dot de