> From: elf <xxxxxx@ephemeral.net>
> Date: Saturday, October 05, 2019 8:51 PM
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> If i may be so bold as to interject -
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> We already have this.
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> It's called writing the SRFIs that you want to and think have general applicability.

It's rather wasteful if you go down a wrong path while writing one, and potentially slower.  It depends a lot on how people prefer to work; I prefer to have some people to bounce ideas off of.  John Cowan for example precisely defined 1/2 of criteria for databases my inchoate sdbi will be supporting, they must return rectangular results.

> There is already a significant amount of new growth.

My point is that as Arthur previously stated, it shouldn't be happening on srfi-discuss.

> Overloading an existing process with lists of things people want but don't personally want to spend the time working on is a fast way to kill everything.

If you're taking about my wild idea of a Schemecomm, after Amirouche proposed his peer-to-peer idea, it occurred to me that communications is a big enough area it might at some point warrant its own topic list.  So I did a little research and though, and posted a list of communications areas to spark ideas, to gauge if and when there were enough projects people want to work on to make the list now or in the future.  Radio would seem to be getting serious interest (and I'll certainly want to work on or add something very different after some number of months of sdbi).

> Deal with the large number of existing issues before making a basket to add new ones.

I would prefer not to discourage people who want to work on a new issue *now* ... or for example slowly let one germinate at a low velocity while "more important" things are being addressed today.

- Harold