members of the HP steering committee, Thanks all for volunteering. I hope you are all now subscribed to the haskell platform mailing list. If not please do so:
haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org at http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform We should hold discussion in public on this list. So as I see it, the immediate task of the steering committee is to help the community come to decisions on the standards and procedures we will use when adding new packages to the platform. This is highly relevant since we do have a major release coming up and the release team need guidance on what should be in that release. So we have to break down the issue and work out how best to present individual questions to the community to get decisions. I should note one lesson from the time Don and I asked the previous question about major/minor releases. We initially asked a rather focused question without much background on the assumptions we were making. The resulting discussion showed that those background assumptions were vital and that those were the things we had to discuss to be able to come to a decision on the specific question of what is in a major vs minor release and how frequent they should be. So the top level specific question we have is what procedures to use for new packages. But behind that is a much of issues about how the community wants to balance quantity vs quality. The community could go for slow growth of the platform with very high quality and great review, or more towards adding lots of packages from hackage that appear to be useful. This partly depends on whether you think a package has to be in the platform for it to be useful, or whether it merely has to be compatible with the platform packages. So, lets start setting out and discussing how to break down and present the issues. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
