Re: [PATCH] Character length cleanup for Coarray Fortran library

[Damian Rouson <damian@sourceryinstitute.org>]

 


On February 10, 2018 at 11:25:58 AM, Zaak Beekman (zbeekman@gmail.com(mailto:zbeekman@gmail.com)) wrote:

> I have mostly dealt with the OpenCoarrays build system and various project  
> management/documentation/QA/CI and other administrivia and devops related  
> stuff---I am not *super* intimately familiar with the actual code base and  
> ABI. I am even less familiar with the GFortran inner workings.  


Same for me. I probably wrote less than 5% the C source code in OpenCoarrays.  Most of my time has been spent on the build system and documentation.

> Alessandro Fanfarillo and Andre are certainly more knowledgeable than I am in this area. 

The most sustainable approach is to integrate the building of OpenCoarrays and the running of the OpenCoarrays test suite into the gfortran development workflow and to consider the OpenCoarrays test results in the process for approving commits for trunk.  \

Andre’s time is mostly occupied by another project, and Alessandro just yesterday completed the postdoctoral position that funded his gfortran/OpenCoarrays work for the last ~2 years at NCAR.  On Monday, Alessandro will start a staff position at NCAR, but the staff position does not support any gfortran/OpenCoarrays work.  I am engaged in ongoing discussions with two NCAR researchers who have co-authored papers with Alessandro and me and I am hopeful that those researchers’ departments will fund some fraction of Alessandro’s time to work on gfortran and OpenCoarrays, but that is not yet certain.  

Over time, Cranfield University Ph.D. student Soren Rasmussen will be able to contribute.  Soren is in the first year of a 3-year fellowship funded by Sourcery Institute so some of his dissertation work will involve adding features to gfortran and OpenCoarrays.  I’m cc’ing Soren to ask if he might build and test Janne’s patch also.


Damian