This repository contains proposals for the Fortran Standard Committee. The idea for this repository is to act as a public facing discussion tool to collaborate with the user community to gather proposals for the Fortran language and systematically track all discussions for each proposal.
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Open a new issue with a new addition that you would like to see eventually included in the Fortran standard.
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The issue will get discussed. Once the Fortran Committee meets, we will try to gather feedback and post it back to the issue.
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If the issue receives
- negative feedback, then we will close the issue and we will have documented reasons why the idea got rejected. One can open a new issue, reference the closed issue and advocate why it should be revisited.
- positive feedback, we can start drafting a formal proposal to be submitted into Documents for the US committee. One has to find an advocate at the committee to advocate for the proposal.
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Getting the proposal through the Committee is a long process, with multiple approvals, formal requirements, specifications, edits to the standard, etc. We will document this step in more detail. During this process, we can document the latest status at the issue.
Currently this repository is maintained by Ondřej Čertík and Zach Jibben (both members of the Fortran Committee). As the repository gains traction, the plan is to have a "blessed" organization at GitHub that the Standard Committee owns and move this repository there.