[ghc-steering-committee] Redid our documentation

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 27.02.2017, 10:48 +0000 schrieb Simon Marlow:
> I like the new organisation.  One functional difference I noticed:
> the new description says that we assign a shepherd when the proposal
> starts the review process, but under the existing process a shepherd
> is assigned to each proposal when the PR is created

I don’t think this is true. The first mention of Shephard is after the
bullet point “Once the committee has been notified that a proposal is
ready for decision”.

>  (but I guess we haven't been sticking to this?).  Ideally I think
> we'd assign shepherds earlier because it will streamline the review
> process: the shepherd will spot things that should be clarified or
> addressed before the rest of the committee gets involved.  I think
> it's likely to be a better use of resources.

I doubt it. Many proposals never seem to reach the state where they are
actually submitted for review, e.g. due to negative feedback in the
discussion phase. No point in wasting resources on these.


Anyways, we can refine the process later. I will merge the current
documentation now, including declaring me the Secretary.

Greetings,
Joachim

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