On 15 December 2010 04:05, Isaac Dupree <m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> wrote: > On 12/14/10 11:01, Duncan Coutts wrote: >> >> On 14 December 2010 08:46, Isaac Dupree<m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> Did anyone volunteer to be the chair yet, to dispatch proposals to committee >>> members and generally keep a guiding eye on the libraries list? >>> >>> If not, I'm willing to volunteer. >> >> We didn't really discuss it yet, though I suspect it will not be >> controversial. I would also be prepared to volunteer. > > Well, it needs to be done: there are around two-and-a-half proposals on the > libraries list right now. I'm going to take it on. Expect a longer e-mail > shortly.
Lets make a specific suggestion and ask the other committee members to OK it (or make their own suggestions as appropriate). 1. That we have a haskell platform committee chairman, their task is to keep an eye on tasks that the committee should attend to, e.g. instigating discussions within the committee. Any member can still do that but the chairman is there to make sure we don't drop the ball by us all thinking someone else was looking after it. Suggest changing the chairman annually. 2. That we set up a system to assign individual committee members to specific platform proposals. They would act for the committee for that specific proposal, as described in the current procedure for adding packages [1]. The members should be listed on the proposals page [2] with some explanitory text and an indication of who is assigned to each proposal and who will be assigned next. We should also update the procedure on adding packages [1] to make clear the slight change in procedure. At the same time we should consider changing the responsibility for some tasks (e.g. updating proposal wiki page) from the proposal author to the assigned committee member. [1]: http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages [2]: http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Proposals Note that item 1 we can just do. Since item 2 involves a change to the policy, it'll need to be rubber stamped by the libraries list. At the same time we can suggest that the committee take on the same sheparding role for libraries proposals. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
