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Scheme Standardization
The following charter and standardization committees have been
approved by the Scheme Strategy Committee. The Strategy Committee was
formed by attendees of the Scheme Workshop in Pittsburgh, October
2002. The draft charter and the committee-selection process were
further confirmed by the attendees of the Scheme Workshop in Boston,
November 2003.
Strategy Committee:
Alan Bawden
William Clinger
Kent Dybvig
Matthew Flatt
Richard Kelsey
Manuel Serrano
Michael Sperber
January 2004
as amended, October 2004
as amended, February 2006
Charter
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Standardization Committees
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* Steering Committee
The creation of Scheme standards shall be governed by a Steering
Committee that consists of three members. Its responsibility is to
ensure that the standardization process continues, and to establish
processes by which draft standards are reviewed and accepted by
the Scheme community at large.
The Steering Committee must replace members who
leave. Replacements must be selected within three months, and the
Steering Committee must announce the replacement to the Scheme
community at large. The Steering Committee itself shall establish
procedures for replacing its members.
This charter can be amended only by a unanimous vote of the
Steering Committee.
* Standard Editors
The creation of Scheme standards documents shall be governed by a
committee of five Editors, including a Chair and a Project Editor. The
Chair is responsible for organizing meetings and other activities and
ensuring that the process makes progress in an orderly fashion. The
Project Editor is responsible for producing standardization
documents. None of the Editors may be a member of the Steering
Committee.
When the Editors have produced a candidate standard, they present
it to the Steering Committee for review and acceptance. The
Steering Committee shall make no rule concerning the process by
which a candidate standard is produced or revised, but Editors are
encouraged to exploit the Scheme Request for Implementation (SRFI)
process for gathering opinions and suggestions from the Scheme
community at large.
The Steering Committee must replace Editors who leave. The
replacements must be selected within three months, and the Steering
Committee must announce the replacement to the Scheme community at
large.
If an editor resigns, the Chair should notify the
Steering Committee so that he may be replaced. The Chair
may of course try to convince the editor to withdraw his
resignation.
The Chair can request that an editor submit a letter of
resignation, so long as such requests are made in good faith and
for good cause.
If the Chair requests a letter of resignation from an
editor, and the editor declines to resign, then the matter should
be resolved by the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee may
investigate and take whatever actions they deem necessary to
resolve the matter up to, and including, the involuntary removal of
one or more editors, possibly including the Chair.
* Scheme Request for Implementation (SRFI) Editors
The Scheme Request for Implementation process shall remain the
primary vehicle for language design and discussion by the Scheme
community at large. SRFI standards shall be governed by the SRFI
Editors, and shall not be governed or endorsed by the Steering
Committee. Standard Editors are encouraged to draw on the SRFI
process in developing Scheme standards.
Recommended Timeline
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The Steering Committee and Editors are ultimately responsible for the
process of Scheme standardization. Nevertheless, as the intent of this
charter is to make timely progress towards a standard, the following
timeline and process suggestions (for a single round of standards) may
serve as a benchmark for the actual process.
* Drafting
The Editors should produce a draft standard core Scheme, a draft
module system, and a draft set of initial libraries within 24
months of the Editors' establishment.
During these 24 months, the Editors are encouraged to produce short
status reports every 6 months, posted at www.schemers.org. The
Editors are also encouraged to solicit opinions on specific issues
concerning the draft. The Editors are further encouraged to record
electronic discussions and meeting minutes in a publicly readable
archive.
If the Editors require more than 24 months to complete the draft,
they are encouraged to report this as soon as possible to the
Steering Committee. If the Editors determine they are unable to
produce a draft, they should report this to the Steering Committee
as soon as possible.
* Review
When the Editors finish the draft standards, they should provide
the drafts to the Steering Committee, who should in turn publish
the drafts on schemers.org.
After this, the members of the Steering Committee and the scheme
community at large have 6 months to voice concerns, criticism, and
suggestions for improving the drafts.
The Editors should attempt to respond to each voiced concern,
detailing a rationale against a concern or indicating the way that
the drafts will change to address a concern.
The editors are encouraged to publish numbered (or otherwise
identified) intermediate revisions of the report during the review
period, and announce them on schemers.org.
* Finalization
After the end of the review period, the Editors should submit new
drafts within three months. The Steering Committee should then
choose either to finalize the drafts or to restart the review
process.
Current Steering Committee
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Alan Bawden
Guy L. Steele
Mitchell Wand
Current Editors
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William D. Clinger
R. Kent Dybvig
Matthew Flatt
Michael Sperber
Anton van Straaten