Minutes of ISAC meeting held via telecom on 07 December 2006

Present: Peter Ashenden, Jim Lewis, Larry Soule, Chuck Swart, Ajay
Verikat

Absent: Lance Thompson

Next Meeting: Thursday, January 4, 2007, 6 pm Pacific Time
              (Friday, January 5, 2007, 2 am GMT )

TOPIC: Bugzilla.

We discussed the possibility of moving the IR system to Bugzilla.
One big advantage is that we would have an automatic tracking
capability, so the odds of losing a submission, change, comment
would be very low. Chuck's only major concern is that IRs with
complicated analyses would be very hard to follow unless submitted
text could be edited. Also it would be good to be able to perform
minor routine edits (spell checking, formatting paragraphs, etc)
Complicated analyses could be put in attachments, but its not clear
if any editing can be done on the main entries.

It was also observed that it would be nice if someone could add
his name to receive email for any bug on a give project.

Peter has suggested a reorganization of the current Bugzilla system.
Chuck will forward his suggestion to ISAC and to the Accellera LRM
group for comment.

It was tentatively agreed that we would begin using Bugzilla for
ISAC issues starting with the next IEEE release.

ACTION: Chuck to pursue editing details

TOPIC: IR 2105 Can't declare an alias of a character literal without
using expanded name.

This looks like a language oversight.

ACTION: Chuck to analyze.

TOPIC: IR 2099 Alias declarations introduce homographs

Peter supplied an email which commented on Chuck's latest revision.
Peter's example shows that the real issue is not restricted to the
"identity aliases" in Chuck's analysis. The more general idea is that
two nonobject aliases with the same alias designator are not homographs
if they refer to the same named entity. (Similarly, an alias and an
identifier, character_literal, operator_symbol are not homographs
if the named entity in the alias declaration is  that identifier.,,,)
In both these cases, for overload resolution, the two aliases, or the
alias and the declaration are considered to be multiple references to
the same named entity. Peter also pointed out a minor omission in the
definition of "identity alias": the alias designator is the same as the
simple name, character literal, or operator symbol of the denoted name.

ACTION: Chuck to continue analysis, then all to review.

TOPIC: Review of IRs incorporated into D3.0

2044   Ajay   OK
2045   Chuck  OK
2047   Jim    OK (IR issued on typo)

ACTION: IRs to be examined for next meeting:

2043    015 Larry
2048    019 Ajay
2049    020 Ajay
2050    021 Chuck
2051    022 Chuck
2052    022 Chuck
2053    023 Larry
2055    025 Larry
2056    026 Lance
2057    027 lance

TOPIC: Review of Pre-2002 IRs

1015   Chuck  Open issues
1016   Larry
1018   Ajay   Open issues
1020   Chuck  Open issues
1021   Lance  Open issues

ACTION: Pre-2002 IRs to be examined for next meeting:

1000    Peter    ongoing
1022    Ajay
1025    Ajay
1026    Larry    (All issues resolved)
1027    Larry    (All issues resolved)
1030    Chuck
1031    Chuck
1032    Lance
1033    Lance