As discussed in the last monthly call we want to streamline the process of creating the monthly newsletters to ensure everybody has enough time to contribute and we are always able to publish on time. This involves for one documenting the general workflow on how the newsletter is produced and also automating the creation of individual parts of the newsletter.
For this purpose we want to elect a community member responsible for initiating the newsletter, inviting contributors and merging it on time. The tentative name for this role was Champion of the Month if I recall correctly.
I started summarizing the newsletter workflow at the fortran-lang.org wiki page:
This wiki page also contains the list of our community champions for the months to come. Feel free to add yourself to the list, or post here in this thread if you want to take over the organization for an upcoming newsletter.
@themos, are you interested in contributing NAG compiler updates for the newsletter? See what it looks like, for example, for Flang and LFortran: Fortran newsletter: May 2021 - Fortran Programming Language. If you or your colleagues already keep a changelog for the compiler, it shouldnāt be more than a few minutes per month effort.
@milancurcic, we are not currently keeping our customers updated with such fine-grained information. We do of course have a roadmap of features for next releases (and it is potentially commercially sensitive) and customers regularly ask us for features to be prioritised. I will consult to see if we can make more information available through our website, which you would then be able to direct to, or summarise here.
FWIW, The current Cray (now HPE) Fortran compiler is F2018-compliant. If you find a case we missed, please file a bug. I believe the ifort compiler in Intelās oneAPI package also supports all of F2018 (though that is not the case for the ifx Fortran compiler in the same package).
We donāt have anyone down to champion the newsletter at the end of this month (August) - unfortunately Iām away at this time, are there any volunteers? The process is quite straightforward and Sebastianās guide covers everything you need to know.
I would take up the next newsletter, but Iāll be away the last week in August as well. Not the best prerequisites to get it merged in time, unfortunately.
But maybe we can still find a volunteer to help us out here.
@lkedward Can you still champion the October newsletter? Iāll have limited time but can help if needed.
We donāt have volunteers yet for the November and December newsletters. This is an easy way to contribute to Fortran-lang if you want to but donāt know how to start.
Weāre looking for another newsletter āchampionā on the month. Champion means simply for a contributor to open a newsletter draft PR, and receive all contributions by November 1. See a recent example PR: Initial draft of october newsletter. by LKedward Ā· Pull Request #339 Ā· fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org Ā· GitHub, and Iāll be happy to guide you through all the steps. Itās a great and easy way to contribute and get your name out there. The newsletter is distributed to more than 1600 people and growing.
Please let me know if youād like to help.
Hereās the tally of newsletter champions so far, I really hope we can grow this list:
Itās again time for organizing our monthly newsletter for a particular short month. Anyone interested in picking up the newsletter for this February?