Gershom B writes: >> I might understand the concern about archiving, but haskell-cafe >> solves that. And "the committee can't be expected to follow >> discussions" and "is empowered to act" does sound like "the committee >> can't be expected to listen to the community”.
Technical issues ought to be decided on their technical substance, not through popularity contests, aren't they? > It means that committee members should be expected to chase all over > social media and sort through lots of poor signal/noise ratio to find > potentially relevant discussions at all times. Rather, it is better to > centralize these things to the extent possible.That’s all. Requiring the committee to maintain quality discussion across a spectrum of $RANDOM_MEDIA_OF_THE_DAY sounds like punishment to me, indeed. And if we are to choose one medium -- repeating points made on reddit: > There is a number of reasons to prefer mailing lists to the more > ephemeral mediums. Those immediately coming to mind are: > > - slower pacing positively affects elaboration of thought > - real names nudge towards responsibility > - well-tuned tools to deal with long, complex conversations > - a non-ephemeral paper-trail that can be dealt with at one's own pace > - absence of distracting noise like "thumbs up" buttons -- с уважениeм / respectfully / Z poważaniem, Косырев Сергей _______________________________________________ Haskell-community mailing list Haskell-community@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-community
