Chairship / responsibility

[Andres Löh]

Hi.

It was my understanding that Herbert would be the chair when I asked
to be on the committee, and the fact that this question was already
answer was a factor in my decision to try to help. Being the committee
chair is less a position of power, and more a position of
responsibility. I think we can be very happy to have someone who is
willing to do the job, and I absolutely trust hvr to be up to the
task.

If needed, we can revisit the question over time when we have a better
idea how our usual workflow and processes look like, but I don't think
we need to or should have this discussion now.

Cheers,
  Andres


On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel
<hvriedel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> On 2016-04-29 at 15:17:43 +0200, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
>> Is there a chair of this committee? Herbert has been acting as such
>> (thank you!) but doesn't list himself as the chair in the initial
>> announcement.
>>
>> I am **in no way** trying to change any status quo and
>> am **not** interested in being chair at the moment, but I just wanted
>> to clarify.
>
> Fwiw, I mentioned in the preceding CfN
> (https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2015-September/003936.html)
> that
>
> | In consultation with the current members of the Haskell Prime
> | committee (and Simon PJ), I have volunteered as chair to "reboot" the
> | process and get things rolling again.
>
> But you're right I failed to repeat this in the actual announcement.
>
> However, I don't want to impose myself on the committee as chair. So if
> anyone else feels motivated enough to pick up the role as chair with the
> agreement of the committee I'll happily hand over the chair position!
> :-)
>
> Moreover, this doesn't need to be a static configuration: We could also
> rotate the chair position (and other duties) over the lifetime of the
> Haskell 2020 committee. There just needs to be one designated chair at
> any time to keep things moving.
>
>> The specific reason I ask is that Takenobu Tani recently asked about
>> `pseq`. I have no intelligent response to offer, but would want to
>> make sure that someone does offer a response. If there is a chair,
>> that person is de facto responsible that we, as a committee,
>> communicate well, both internally and externally.
>
> You're definitely right. And IMO the chair only needs to step in if
> nobody else feels compelled to respond within a reasonable time, e.g. a
> few days -- after all, we all have other duties besides the prime
> committee :-)
>
> -- hvr
>
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