[ghc-steering-committee] Solicitation for a new member

[Richard Eisenberg]

+1 from me. I explicitly support conservatism on the committee.

Richard

> On Jul 7, 2018, at 10:48 AM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear Committee,
> 
> Ryan Newton has expressed interest in being rotated out of the
> committee. I spoke to the Simons, and they indicate we should ask for
> public nominations. Here is a draft of a mail I’d send to the usual
> mailing lists. Please comment.
> 
> ==========================
> Dear community,
> 
> the GHC Steering committee is seeking nomination for a new member, and
> ask for self-nominations.
> 
> The committee scrutinizes, nitpicks, improves, weights and eventually
> accepts or rejects proposals that extend or change the language
> supported by GHC and other (public-facing) aspects of GHC
> Our processes are described in the README in
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals
> which is also the GitHub repository where proposals are proposed.
> 
> We are looking for a member who has the ability 
> * to understand such language extension proposals,
> * to find holes and missing corner cases in the specifications,
> * foresee the interaction with other language features and 
>   specifications,
> * make constructive comments and improvements,
> * judge the cost/benefit ratio and
> * finally come to a justifiable conclusion.
> 
> Particular pluses that we look for are
> * candidates who have been in the community for some time, and/or
> * who have expertise in language design and implementation in
>   related language, which they can share with us.
> 
> The committee work requires a small, but non-trivial amount of time,
> especially when you are assigned a proposal for shepherding. Please
> keep that in mind if your email inbox is already flowing over.
> 
> There is no shortage of people who are very eager to get fancy new
> features into the language, both in the committee and the wider
> community. I therefore explicitly invite “conservative” members of the
> community to join the committee.
> 
> The GHC developers themselves are nicely represented already. Having
> hacked on GHC is not a requirement.
> 
> 
> To nominate yourself, please send an email to me (as the committee
> secretary) at mail at joachim-breitner.de until July 20th. I will
> distribute the nominations among the committee, and we will keep the
> nominations and our deliberations private.
> 
> You cannot nominate others. But if you know of anyone else you’d think
> should be on the committee, please do encourage them, or talk to us and
> we can encourage them.
> 
> On behalf of the committee,
> Joachim Breitner
> ==========================
> 
> 
> Note worth discussing:
> 
> * I see no point in non-self-nominations. We can only have members
>   that want to do this.
> 
> * Do we want to encourage “conservative” members? Is that the right  
>   wording? (I see the committee a bit as a flood gate that protects
>   against premature and not-worth-it changes. We are doing a good
>   job of that – most of my proposals get rejected ;-) – but I think
>   it would not hurt to explicitly keep it that way.
> 
> * One could consider public nominations and deliberations, but I feel
>   that a public discussion of who we think is the “best” is not very
>   nice.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Joachim
> 
> -- 
> Joachim Breitner
>  mail at joachim-breitner.de
>  http://www.joachim-breitner.de/
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