[Haskell] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

Manuel M T Chakravarty chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Sun Sep 5 23:10:52 EDT 2010


Ian Lynagh:
> To fix this problem, we propose that we create a "haskell.org
> committee", which is responsible for answering these sorts of questions,
> although for some questions they may choose to poll the community at
> large if they think appropriate.
[..]
> Unfortunately, this gives us a bootstrapping problem, so we suggest that
> the initial committee be chosen from open nominations by some of the
> people who currently de-facto end up making the decisions currently:
> Duncan Coutts, Isaac Jones, Ian Lynagh, Don Stewart and Malcolm Wallace.
> These 5 would still be elligible to nominate themselves. Two of the
> initial members will stand down after one year, and two after two years,
> in order to bootstrap rolling membership turnover.

Good plan!

Manuel



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