Kevin Wortman scripsit: > The pages on trac.sacrideo.us/wg/ had led me to believe that the first > step in proposing something was to post to > [email protected] and that substantive technical > discussion would happen there. But after reading this thread, my > present understanding is that the first step is to write up a SRFI > proposal and submit it to [email protected]. If and when > the SRFI is granted "final" status, someone can propose to > [email protected] that the SRFI be included in > R7RS-large. Is that correct?
Those are semi-independent events. Anyone can add something to InputDocket with or without a concrete proposal, or post to the WG2 list, in which case I will add the idea to InputDocket with a link to the proposal if there is one. For this purpose, proposals can be quite informal, even just links to existing Schemes's documentation, but you could also propose a specific existing SRFI or R6RS chapter for inclusion as-is or with minor corrections. Eventually, the WG must decide whether to move stuff from InputDocket (which is just a hopper) to an actionable docket. Then, of course, anyone can propose a SRFI following the regular SRFI process, whether they have R7RS-large in mind or not. What is more, any SRFI will be finalized if it meets the process requirements and the creator requests finalization, so having a SRFI finalized is basically the decision of just one person. In the end, we don't vote on a proposal for inclusion unless (a) we have a SRFI in hand, and (b) we have voted to add the proposal to StandardDocket (or it's been added by unanimous consent procedure to either StandardDocket or ConsentDocket). But the order in which those things happen is not important. I hasten to add that none of this procedure is official yet. -- One Word to write them all, John Cowan <[email protected]> One Access to find them, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan One Excel to count them all, And thus to Windows bind them. --Mike Champion _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
