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2019-10-09 meeting minutes

Attendees:

Jeff Squyres
Puri Bangalore
Martin Rüefenacht

Goals for next week

Number 1 priority is to finish the Pythonizing of the bindings.
- Goal is to have (essentially) a 1:1 rendering of MPI-3.1-style bindings (i.e., NOT embigenning the count parameters).
- Must have this done by the Dec Forum meeting.
- Martin R. has a bunch of work done on a regression testing tool that will verify our MPI-4-rendered bindings against the LaTeX from MPI-3.1. This will be an enormous help in validating the Pythonizing / checking it for errors.
- Martin S. got agreement from the chapter heads that they will also review the text to make sure it is correct in their chapters.
- This is separate from the BigCount effort. Specifically:
  - The goal is to finish this Pythonizing ASAP.
  - If there is a question about whether to embiggen a parameter or not, use a special "use the int" token for the type in Python. This will be an easily-greppable type that we can search for later (when working on the embiggening).
  - Do not worry (much) about how they render in MPI-4.0-style yet -- just worry about rendering in MPI-3.1-style to get equivalence with the old hard-coded-in-LaTeX MPI-3.1 bindings.
- Martin will keep working on his regression tool.
- Jeff and Martin will keep working on Pythonizing the .tex, per above.
Number 2 priority is to finish the text changes for BigCount.
- It turns out that many of us were not subscribed to the BigCount working group mailing list!
  - Everyone needs to subscribe.
  - Just like we're using this wiki now, we should use the working group mailing list, too.
- Rolf R. made some good points on the WG mailing list that none of us saw (https://lists.mpi-forum.org/pipermail/mpiwg-large-counts/2019-September/000023.html).
- Dan replied to him off-list, and CC'ed all of us.
- Need to get Dan's reply in the mail archives, too.
- Rest of WG needs to read that thread and make sure we addressed all of Rolf's questions.
- Puri is working on the text per feedback from the Euro MPI Forum meeting in Sep 2019.