<div dir="auto">Simon,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think this is a good idea! Is my understanding correct that this is for record keeping by the shepherd only? It is not sufficient for steering committee members to go over the proposal and just fill out accept/reject/recuse in their respective column? Emails are still the authorative events?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto"> Moritz</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 at 10:07 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simon.peytonjones@gmail.com">simon.peytonjones@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dear GHC steering committee<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Re GHC proposals I was talking to Simon M about</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><ul style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><li style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Making the shepherd's job easier and quicker</li><li style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Providing a way for members of the committee to say (explicitly) "I don't have an opinion about this proposal" and thus recuse themselves. Explicit recusal is better than "silence means assent" because silence can, and often does, mean "I'm under water and not listening".</li></ul><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">With that in mind, I want to revive my suggestion of running <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e6GdwHmAjeDEUhTvP-b18MDkpTfH3SMHhFu5F3nDIWc/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">an online spreadsheet </a>to describe the state of proposals that are in our active purview. That is, I'm not proposing to show proposals that are under discussion by the community, or accepted etc -- just the ones that are in our inbox, <b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">where the next action is ours.</b></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">That makes it much easier to see our current inbox, without looking back for Jocahim's last email and then adding deltas for all the emails since -- which I cannot do in my head.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Specifically, I have <b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">a column for each committee member's vote. </b> That should make it easy for the shepherd to see who is yet to express an opinion, which I always find difficult.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">As I say above, I am very uncomfortable with "silence means assent" for any but the smallest proposals. <b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I suggest instead that if there is a proposal where you feel unable to offer an opinion, due to lack of expertise, or lack of time, you can say "recuse" meaning that you explicitly want to stand down from this particular proposal.</b> (Somehow "abstain" carries a connotation of conflict of interest or something, but it amounts to the same thing.) If you are too under water to even recuse yourself, maybe it's time to step down.<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">So in columns F to O we should see explicit responses from every committee member, in a timely way.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Joachim doesn't like spreadsheets like this because they can easily get out of date. But it must be better than manually trawling email. <b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">And it is up to each of us (not Joachim) to fill in our own column for proposals in our inbox.</b></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">If we don't like it, we can change it. You all have edit rights.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I have populated it with data from Joachim's message of 2 Sept, but there has been some action since then, so shepherds please update it. This is not Joachim's task!</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Simon<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div>
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