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Next: <a href="A-Timeline-of-Selected-Guile-Releases.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">A Timeline of Selected Guile Releases</a>, Previous: <a href="Early-Days.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Early Days</a>, Up: <a href="History.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">A Brief History of Guile</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h4 class="subsection" id="A-Scheme-of-Many-Maintainers-1"><span>9.1.3 A Scheme of Many Maintainers<a class="copiable-link" href="#A-Scheme-of-Many-Maintainers-1"> ¶</a></span></h4>
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<p>Surveying the field, it seems that Scheme implementations correspond
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with their maintainers on an N-to-1 relationship. That is to say, that
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those people that implement Schemes might do so on a number of
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occasions, but that the lifetime of a given Scheme is tied to the
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maintainership of one individual.
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<p>Guile is atypical in this regard.
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<p>Tom Lord maintained Guile for its first year and a half or so,
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corresponding to the end of 1994 through the middle of 1996. The
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releases made in this time constitute an arc from SCM as a standalone
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program to Guile as a reusable, embeddable library, but passing
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through a explosion of features: embedded Tcl and Tk, a toolchain for
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compiling and disassembling Java, addition of a C-like syntax,
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creation of a module system, and a start at a rich POSIX interface.
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<p>Only some of those features remain in Guile. There were ongoing
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tensions between providing a small, embeddable language, and one which
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had all of the features (e.g. a graphical toolkit) that a modern Emacs
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might need. In the end, as Guile gained in uptake, the development
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team decided to focus on depth, documentation and orthogonality rather
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than on breadth. This has been the focus of Guile ever since, although
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there is a wide range of third-party libraries for Guile.
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<p>Jim Blandy presided over that period of stabilization, in the three
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years until the end of 1999, when he too moved on to other projects.
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Since then, Guile has had a group maintainership. The first group was
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Maciej Stachowiak, Mikael Djurfeldt, and Marius Vollmer, with Vollmer
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staying on the longest. By late 2007, Marius had mostly moved on to
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other things, so Neil Jerram and Ludovic Courtès stepped up to take on
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the primary maintenance responsibility. Neil and Ludovic were joined by
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Andy Wingo in late 2009, allowing Neil to step away, and Mark Weaver
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joined shortly thereafter. After spending more than 5 years in the
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role, Mark stepped down as well, leaving Ludovic and Andy as the current
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co-maintainers of Guile as of January 2020.
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<p>Of course, a large part of the actual work on Guile has come from
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other contributors too numerous to mention, but without whom the world
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would be a poorer place.
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