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Re: [bpfk] What I'm going to do.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:28:32AM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> 
> Every January 1st. the BPFK publishes a very concise "State of the
> Language" report, that looks something like this:
> 
[snip]
> 
> That should be published in some prominent BPFK site, where each
> year's new "State of the Language" report is added.
> 
> BPFK recommendations are just what their name suggests, but they
> give the community a sense of what the BPFK is doing (and also
> helps us keep track of what we are failing to do).
> 
> The CLL-2011 document will most likely contain some internal
> inconsistenies, and there may be a few inconsistencies between it
> and cmavo-2011, but it doesn't matter, we publish it all the same,
> CLL-2012 and cmavo-2012 will fix some of them, and CLL-2013 and
> cmavo-2013 will fix some others, and so on. Something imperfect is
> better than nothing.

I like that.

> In the meantime, we can keep working, but we are committed to
> present a State of the Language Report every January 1st, no
> matter how little has been resolved the previous year, and no
> matter that we know that there are outstanding issues.
> 
> The LLG may, in turn, if it so wishes, in its June or whenever
> meeting, give its blessing to what the BPFK has presented on
> January 1st, suggest to the BPFK that it look deeper into this or
> that language issue, and so on.
> 
> What do you think?

Works for me.  You gonna tell them about your other idea?  :D

-Robin

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