[ghc-steering-committee] GHC 2020

[Eric Seidel]

Opening a regular discussion about whether and how we want to work on GHC 2020 sounds fine, that will also give the community a place to weigh in. I do think the eventual contents should be informed by the community though, it shouldn’t just be us working alone. 

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> On Sep 2, 2020, at 03:16, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sounds plausible. It would also allow us to use tags to easily indicate
> the status (e.g. clearly-not, definitely-yes, kinda-contested…), and
> then filter by issue to get the current list…
> 
> But before we go there, shouldn’t we maybe have a discussion first on
> 
> * do we even want that?
> * what are the abstract criteria (or guidelines)?
> * what is the process?
> 
> I believe that discussion could be done like any other proposal.
> 
> 
> As for the process; when I brought up the idea, I was worried about us
> spending huge resources discussion individual extensions to death, and
> proposed, in the interest of efficiency and getting things done:
> 
>> The process could be: Every member can nominate any number of 
>> extensions, to include, maybe a small rationale and then we do one 
>> round of independent approval voting, requiring a supermajority to 
>> really only pick uncontested extensions.
> 
> So instead of long debates, we start with GHC2020 being just those
> extensions that a supermajority on the committee considers to be ok. 
> 
> This is much more lightweight process that we could get done in a week
> or two (maybe using a doodle-like voting page). Maybe we would leave
> out one or two extension that initially people are reserved about, but
> could be swayed after lengthy discussions. But is that worth the
> lengthy discussion?
> 
> cheers,
> Joachim
> 
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> Joachim Breitner
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> 
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