[ghc-steering-committee] GHC steering committee participation

[Roman Leschinskiy]

Hi Simon, hi everyone,

I'll find the time to contribute. In general, I feel that we at SC should participate more in the Haskell community.

On the other hand, I'll completely understand if you decide that someone who (unfortunately) hasn't been actively involved in GHC development in the last couple of years shouldn't be on the committee. So no pressure!

Roman

> On 3 Feb 2017, at 11:36, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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