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

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On 25/09/2015 07:27, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
> On 09/24/2015 10:22 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> For the committee to represent everyone, shouldn't the committee be
> *elected* by everyone? With all due respect to the committee and the
> work they do, I don't remember voting for them.

That does feel like something that should happen at some point, but it
would be a fair amount of effort to organise. In the meantime AFAIK the
committee does make an effort to select its own successors in a
balanced/representative way and I think it's the best thing we've got at
present.

Ganesh