Re: [Chasm-interop-devel] The future of Chasm?

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Craig, thanks for your input and help.

Since TASCS/Babel are dependent on Chasm, I consider it in our
interest to insure that support requests receive appropriate
responses. The tracker issues seem to be primarily from Tom, but I
remember Victor Eijkhout recently saying that he had asked a Chasm
question (where?) and not gotten any response, so he redirected his
question to the Babel community.

Since Matt is on the TASCS payroll, I wonder if he would be willing to
be the "point man" in making sure Chasm issues get addressed?  That
doesn't necessarily mean fixing everything himself, just making sure
that anyone who submits an issue gets some kind of response, even if
it is just "we're on it" and that the _someone_ really does address
the issue appropriately.

Also, would it be useful to setup automatic periodic testing in a few
places in order to try to catch updates to as many of the supported
compilers as we can?  Jim Kohl is nominally working on testing for the
CCA tool chain and if the tests have already been written, I'm happy
to add automation and deployment of the process to Jim's plate.

It would be great to have a prioritized list of compilers, and then we
could look for places to run the tests.  I might be able to put some
on cca-forum.org if we need to. But I think we're better off, wherever
possible, trying to do it at sites with more organized maintenance of
the system software environment.
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