[alaric@snell-pym.org.uk: Re: [scheme-reports-wg2] Next meeting: time and agenda]

[Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe]

Forwarding Alaric's off-list response.

----- Forwarded message from Alaric Snell-Pym <ala...@snell-pym.org.uk> -----

Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 12:27:53 +0000
From: Alaric Snell-Pym <ala...@snell-pym.org.uk>
To: Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <w...@sigwinch.xyz>
Subject: Re: [scheme-reports-wg2] Next meeting: time and agenda
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On 26/02/2026 19:17, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'd like to start planning our next meeting, since it's been over
> three months since the last one. A few points to consider:

Thanks for stepping up and sorting this! I saw your original email but
have had a crazy week and haven't had a chance to reply :-(

> * Date & time: Can we agree to meet for an hour or two during the second
> or third weeks of March? If so, I'll make a poll using one of the tools
> we've used in the past and we can narrow it down to a specific time.
>
> * Where: #scheme on Libera.chat again, unless there are objections.
>
> * Chair: Daphne has (in an email to me and Alaric) given us the go-ahead
> to choose an acting chair to preside over meetings. If you'd like
> to nominate someone for this role in the upcoming meeting we could
> start with a quick majority vote to decide who it will be (or use
> another Web poll). I'll nominate Alaric, who I believe volunteered
> to be acting chairman at some point in the past.

Excellent

> * Agenda: This is giving me the most trouble. I'll review the minutes
> from previous meetings and see what business was postponed. What
> issues do we need to bring up?

I am also uncertain about this. I gather Daphne was pulling ticket
from an issue tracker but I'm not certain on what the criteria are for
which ones are next? Past agendas eg
https://codeberg.org/scheme/r7rs/wiki/Agenda+2025-10-28.- have links
to tickets, and those tickets have labels like "Foundations" and
"Resolution in draft" so do we just pluck some from the Foundations
label that aren't resolved in the draft yet?

https://codeberg.org/scheme/r7rs/issues?labels=39780

On the one hand, we should probably ask Daphne. On the other hand, I'm
keen to figure as much stuff as we can out ourselves and not bother
her as she's clearly having a Rough Time. What do you think?

> Please let me know as soon as possible whether you'll be available
> in the time frame I've suggested (March 8--21). I look forward to
> chatting with you all soon.

Count me in! And thanks again for getting started!

>
> Regards,
>
> Wolfgang
>


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Alaric Snell-Pym (M0KTN neé M7KIT)
http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/




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[Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe]

On 2026-03-01 12:27 +0000, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
> Thanks for stepping up and sorting this! I saw your original email but
> have had a crazy week and haven't had a chance to reply :-(

Thank you, Alaric, and thanks for accepting the nomination to preside.
Please fill in your slots on the poll when you have the chance.
(https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/en/p/18fdf78930a3d60964dfeb05391ac59f-1636125)

> > * Agenda: This is giving me the most trouble. I'll review the minutes
> > from previous meetings and see what business was postponed. What
> > issues do we need to bring up?
>
> I am also uncertain about this. I gather Daphne was pulling ticket
> from an issue tracker but I'm not certain on what the criteria are
> for which ones are next? Past agendas eg
> https://codeberg.org/scheme/r7rs/wiki/Agenda+2025-10-28.- have links
> to tickets, and those tickets have labels like "Foundations" and
> "Resolution in draft" so do we just pluck some from the Foundations
> label that aren't resolved in the draft yet?

Yes, I would like to figure out as much as possible among ourselves
without bugging Daphne, but I'd welcome any pointers she has. I also
agree with chaw that it would be good to work on something easy for
our first meeting back. I've written down some topics that were
postponed during the last meeting, as well as some open, easy-ish
issues for the Procedural and Valued Fascicles.


### Things postponed during the 2025-11-21 meeting:

We might be able to make progress on issue #71 (Sources of random
bits), which was still being discussed when the Nov. meeting was
adjourned. Some people talked about reading up on SRFI 194.

The other postponed business is harder, but we might at least look into
one or two topics: multidimensional arrays (waiting for expert advice),
#90: real?/real-valued? (ditto), raw string literals (very contentious,
no consensus in last meeting).


### From the issue tracker

#292: add bytevector=?.

#271: unspecified return values. (This is the only issue tagged
with 'Procedural Fascicle' that seems not to have been discussed at
a meeting so far)

#11: Safety of utf8->string and friends

#33: Unicode gamut. (This is a very big topic, but it might be good
for some discussion to get a sense of what people think.)

#206: substring & list-copy get start & end arguments. This is an
easy one.


This is just a grab-bag; I didn't want to get too ambitious. Let me
know what you think.

Regards,

Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <w...@sigwinch.xyz>