[ANSI-Smalltalk] The vote on administration

[Bruce Badger]

Dear all,

The vote on the administration of our standards work has a couple of
more days to run.  At present the clear leader is that we administer
things ourselves.  I think that this is a reflection of how important
transparency and openness is to most people.

http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=htasnxt27fcezxzg

Assuming that this is the final outcome, we then need to work out
*how* we administer ourselves.

One approach is to go it completely alone and to follow something like
the JCP (as suggested by Paolo and others, which *we* may wish to call
the SCP) or even come up with out own process.

Another is to do the above, but in *addition* support the formal ANSI
process.  This was  discussed in a recent thread on this list and is
perhaps best captured by Martin McClure's post:

http://lists.openskills.org/pipermail/ansi-smalltalk/2008-February/000237.html

This would mean that we would have two separate processes.  One of
which is open and community driven, and the other which takes
direction from the first operates within the formal ANSI framework.
The work of the community project should then constantly be a
pre-cursor to each new version of the ANSI standard.

Anyway, the vote is still open so please make your views known by
voting and or posting a message here.

All the best,
    Bruce
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