I think Smalltalk Standard Project is much much more com pellling than Smalltalk Sandards Project. Please, just *one* standard. I want an accordion not a bunch of mouth organs in different keys...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Bruce Badger <<a href="mailto:bwbadger@gmail.com">bwbadger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We have voted to organise ourselves and the discussion on how we do<br>
that has already started with Paulo's STEPs proposal (which I think<br>
looks pretty good!).<br>
<br>
While we may well work with the ANSI standardisation process in the<br>
future (and I hope we do) it is distinct from us, but who are we?<br>
Currently we carry the label the ANSI Smalltalk project, but that is<br>
clearly not the case since any ANSI work will be distinct.<br>
<br>
So, painful and bureaucratic though it sounds, I think we need a new name.<br>
<br>
If we adopt Paolo's process we could just be the Steps Project, but<br>
perhaps the explicit Smalltalk Standards Project may be better, or ...<br>
<br>
What do you think?<br>
<br>
All the best,<br>
Bruce<br>
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p.s. It seems that we are taking ages mucking around with admin<br>
without getting on with the problem at hand, i.e. defining Smalltalk<br>
standards. My hope is that whatever we are starting will be a (very)<br>
long running project, so I am not too worried that we are taking our<br>
time getting the foundations right. I am keen to get cracking, but I<br>
want to do so in a sustainable way. There you go.<br>
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