[ghc-steering-committee] GHC steering committee participation

[Simon Peyton Jones]

I'd be fine with that, if Roman feels he has enough time to contribute pro-actively.  (Hi Roman!)

You are quite right to raise this Atze; it's not good having members who are, in practice, unable to contribute.  One just ends up with guilt all round :-).  So, thank you!

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: ghc-steering-committee [mailto:ghc-steering-committee-
|  bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Atze Dijkstra
|  Sent: 03 February 2017 11:00
|  To: ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org
|  Cc: Donald Stewart <donald.stewart at sc.com>; rleshchinskiy at gmail.com
|  Subject: [ghc-steering-committee] GHC steering committee participation
|  
|  Dear committee members,
|  
|  as you may have noticed I have not actively participated in proposal
|  reviewing. I can wrap this in a long or short story, but at the core lies
|  lack of time combined with my role at Standard Chartered (SC) evolving in a
|  direction less involved with GHC and Haskell language design/implementation
|  than I originally thought it might be. Privately, outside of SC, I also see
|  little time and energy left for committee activities. The work on proposals
|  seems to have started actively and vigorously and I'd rather not be this
|  silent non-contributing participant. I feel it is important to have somebody
|  from what can likely be called the largest Haskell based industrial
|  development group be in contact with and contribute to what by definition is
|  an important tool for us. After some consultation with colleagues I found
|  Roman Leshchinskiy (rleshchinskiy at gmail.com) to be willing to replace me in
|  the committee. For most of the committee members I guess he is already known
|  from the FP community so I leave further introduction up to himself. Within
|  SC Roman is responsible for GHC related supporting infrastructure and as
|  such is more than I am involved in and confronted with GHC intricacies,
|  which places him at a better position to contribute to the GHC steering
|  committee from an industrial perspective. I am aware that stepping down
|  might cause inconvenience, but also feel that this better can be done now
|  than later when the committee is already on farther on its way in dealing
|  with proposals. I am also aware that it is not really up to me to decide
|  what to do next after me stepping down, but I feel the proposed replacement
|  by Roman is the best option from my perspective.
|  
|  all the best,
|  Atze
|  
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