<font face="arial, sans-serif">As per the schedule, the call for proposals has ended. While the HP process allows proposals at anytime, I've set a cut off for those that will be included in the next release, HP 2012.4.0.0.</font><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The proposals before us, and my rough reading on state of the consensus of each, are:</font></div><div><ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>async</b> - general agreement to includ</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>split</b> - general agreement to includ</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>time-extras</b> - general agreement to exclude, as the instances it provided are now provided by <b>time</b> itself.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>vector</b> - rough agreement that the functionality should be in the platform with two sticking points:</font></li><ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">remove the </font><font face="courier new, monospace">.Safe</font><font face="arial, sans-serif"> modules, I believe Roman has prepared a new version with this change</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, sans-serif">reconsider the name of the dependent <b>primitive</b> package, which would also have to be included.</font></li></ul></ul></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">There is one more issue: <b>OpenGL</b> and <b>GLUT</b> in the platform are very down-rev, because later versions were split into a number of packages which didn't meet with agreement for inclusion in the platform. There has been discussion on what to do about this situation, but no proposals were made. We may run into a build issue, which might force a decision later in this release cycle.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Now is the time for any further discussion of these matters. I will need to make go/no-go decisions for the 2012.4.0.0 release in little over a week:<br>
</font><ul style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li style="margin-left:15px"><b><font color="#cc0000">September 17th, 2012</font></b> - Call for proposals ends (no more proposals considered)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><b><font color="#cc0000">October 1st, 2012</font></b> - Proposals decided, Initial version list</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b><font color="#cc0000">October 15th, 2012</font></b> - First candidates</li>
</ul><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">— Mark <i>keep them doggies movin'</i> Lentczner</font><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></b></div>