[Haskell-community] Request for comment: New haskell.org download page

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

I'm not too sure about the idea of voting directly - this seems like 
exactly what we have a committee for, to represent everyone rather than 
just the people who happen to be reading the right list at the right time.

But anyway, if this is a poll of the whole list, I vote for #4.

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, John Wiegley wrote:

>>>>>> Michael Snoyman <michael at fpcomplete.com> writes:
>
>> Secondly, I'd like to make clear what I think the goal for the downloads
>> page should be: new users. Experienced Haskellers are unlikely to even visit
>> this downloads page, and are likely well aware of the situation around
>> tooling to make an informed decision regardless of what this page says. I'd
>> like us to constrain discussion to "what's best for a new user." I haven't
>> heard anyone object to this idea before.
>
> I couldn't agree more, Michael. The new user is first in my mind with all of
> this.
>
> Perhaps we need a poll. So far the presented options are:
>
>    1. HP       Stack    Minimal
>    2. Stack    HP       Minimal
>    3. Stack    Minimal  HP
>    4. Minimal  HP       Stack
>    5. Minimal  Stack    HP
>
> I'll open voting at the current state, choosing #4. My reason is that HP and
> Stack will soon merge, and I'm willing to put Minimal first based on
> Christopher's and Gershom's arguments.
>
> Further, the reason HP is staying on the list for now is that I'd prefer not
> to conflate issues. I'm happy to start a new discussion, recommending to the
> committee that we remove HP, if others wish to.
>
> John
>