[ghc-steering-committee] Redid our documentation

[Simon Peyton Jones]

|  Joachim’s suggestion makes sense to me, but I also agree with Chris that
|  if we can use GitHub notifications, that would be more flexible.
|  (Everybody who wants can turn the notifications into emails for just
|  themselves in their own GitHub settings.)

Fine with me provided someone tells me how (iff we decide to take this approach).

S

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|  From: ghc-steering-committee [mailto:ghc-steering-committee-
|  bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Manuel M T Chakravarty
|  Sent: 26 February 2017 23:17
|  To: Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com>
|  Cc: ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org; Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-
|  breitner.de>
|  Subject: Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Redid our documentation
|  
|  Joachim’s suggestion makes sense to me, but I also agree with Chris that
|  if we can use GitHub notifications, that would be more flexible.
|  (Everybody who wants can turn the notifications into emails for just
|  themselves in their own GitHub settings.)
|  
|  > Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com>:
|  >
|  > Label changes are pretty under the radar, which is why my original
|  > suggestion included the project board.
|  >
|  > Messages to the mailing list could work, but I'd prefer we kept this
|  > for our discussions and figure out notifications on Github.
|  >
|  > IIRC, we were supposed to assign helpers to the issues. My prior
|  > assumption had been that the proposer would cc them in the Github
|  > issue. The helper would then notify the broader committee on the
|  > mailing list.
|  >
|  > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Richard Eisenberg
|  <rae at cs.brynmawr.edu> wrote:
|  >>
|  >>> On Feb 25, 2017, at 11:26 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-
|  breitner.de> wrote:
|  >>>
|  >>> * What was “Under Discussion” is now simply any PR that does not
|  >>> have any other label. This way, when opening discussion, nothing
|  >>> concrete has to be done. Which is easier. (GitHub allows to list all
|  >>> PRs that have no label, so there is no loss in functionality here.)
|  >>>
|  >>> * When the author wants to submit the PR, he sends a mail to this
|  >>> mailinglist (is this set up to accept mails from non-subscribers?)
|  >>> and it its the task of the shephard to set the label to indicate
|  >>> that that the committee has accepted to review the proposal. (At
|  >>> this point, the shephard could for example set the `Out-of-scope`
|  >>> label instead.)
|  >>
|  >> While I have not re-read the documentation changes, this tweak seems
|  sensible to me. I was always skeptical of having us react simply to a
|  label change without an email.
|  >>
|  >> Thanks for doing this!
|  >>
|  >> Richard
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