On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 October 2010 19:06, Michael Snoyman <mich...@snoyman.com> wrote: >> [..] > > I _really_ like this idea. With this nebulous proposal of yours, is > there any way of maybe integrating the various services already hosted > at haskell.org and its sub-domains (mailing lists, tracs, etc.) or are > you looking at "re-inventing the wheel"? > > Rather than just "strike-forces", this could become more Haskell > Special Interest Groups; that way, if someone wants help with a > particular area of Haskell (web development, graph theory, etc.) they > can contact that SIG rather than -cafe in general.
Mental note: must remember to use word "nebulous" more often, I like it. Anyway, integration with existing services would be very good, but I doubt it will be possible. I don't think there's a way to automatically create a mailing list, trac project, and so on and so forth, and I'm not certain it would make sense to make such a feature possible. I suppose something like this would be a possible goal to look towards if we ever start working more seriously on single-signon and the like, but for now, I think we're stuck reinventing the wheel. Your SIG idea sounds possible, let's play it out. I'll go with web development, since I'm personally involved there. I suppose the idea would be I could create such an interest group, and hopefully developers on other frameworks (Happstack and Snap for instance) could join the team. Users may come and start requesting features, and everyone interested in solving the problem could participate in the discussion. Seems like it would fit right in with the strike force proposal, just under a different name. I have no objection to trying to name this something more generic such as SIG. Michael _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe