[ANSI-Smalltalk] The vote on administration

[Steve Wart]

I think Martin's comments are quite compelling. I vote for that approach if
anyone's counting

Steve

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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