Contribution vs quality, and a few notes on the Platform process

[Don Stewart]

igloo:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:18:37AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> >
> > This is moving in the opposite direction from what Ross suggests above -  
> > making the platform less of an aggregation mechanism and more of a  
> > single community project.  Could it work?  I'm not sure.  Clearly Ross's  
> > model would "work", but it would produce something that's less like a  
> > platform.
> 
> Steering committee, I think we need to resolve this question before we
> can make progress. How should we proceed?
> 
> Also, is there a better list than haskell-platform at projects for
> communicating with the steering committee? I don't see any addresses on
> the committee list page:
>     http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Members
> 

What is the question? I don't think libraries@ has a mandate to change
the current HP goals or process, for example, so I'm unclear what
exactly is being proposed.

-- Don