"Arthur A. Gleckler" <xxxxxx@speechcode.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 10:11 AM Antero Mejr <xxxxxx@antr.me> wrote:
>
>     The bus factor of Large, the SRFIs, and Scheme.org is N=1. The Scheme
>     tracks of conferences are gone or much less active than they once were.
>     Very little software is being written in portable Scheme. And there is
>     no way of knowing how much better things could be, because there is such
>     a hesitance to organize or cooperate.
>
> It's not correct to say that the bus factor of SRFI is one.

That may have been a slight exaggeration, but most projects have just
one or two active contributors at a time. And the rest is
(unfortunately) true. I think more contributors would be be better for
long-term survivability.

> It's true that another volunteer would have to be found, but needing
> to find a volunteer is not the same as having a bus factor of one.
> Finally, the SRFI process has been run by many different editors over
> time, so we have proof that we can transition from editor to editor.

There is a risk that a volunteer won't be found quickly enough, or the
transition just doesn't happen for some reason. The academia incentive
to work on Scheme is pretty much gone. It could be much harder to find
someone up for the task.