Dear HPX users and developers, The HPX users and developers at CSCS (that includes myself) have expressed an interest in separating the local-only and distributed functionality of HPX into two separate projects and repositories. This is a contentious topic, so before we do a large change like this we want to consult the community through a vote. My personal vote and motivation for the change will follow in a separate message.
Practically speaking, the proposal is to move the on-node functionality of HPX (this includes futures, algorithms, basic CUDA/HIP support, a local-only runtime, and all the utilities required to support this) into a separate repository. The remaining distributed functionality of HPX would keep the hpx name, stay in the current repository, and it would gain one new dependency, called (e.g.) hpx-local. Releases of hpx and hpx-local would often be done together, but could be done independently of each other. The aim is to affect current users of distributed features of HPX as little as possible, while giving users of local-only features a project that, by default, gives them only local functionality. If there's consensus to go ahead with a split, we will also consider splitting HPX into more than two projects. Voting works as follows (from https://hpx.stellar-group.org/governance/): If a formal vote on a proposal is called (signaled simply by sending a email with [VOTE] in the subject line), all participants on the HPX user’s mailing list may express an opinion and vote. They do this by sending an email in reply to the original [VOTE] email, with the following vote and information: - +1: ‘yes’, ‘agree’: also willing to help bring about the proposed action - +0: ‘yes’, ‘agree’: not willing or able to help bring about the proposed action - -0: ‘no’, ‘disagree’: but will not oppose the action’s going forward - -1: ‘no’, ‘disagree’: opposes the action’s going forward and must propose an alternative action to address the issue (or a justification for not addressing the issue) This is a "Concensus approval" vote (see governance document for details). Responses from developers and users alike are encouraged. Please vote as soon as possible, but we will leave the voting open until Thursday 17th June. Kind regards, Mikael Simberg
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