Hi. It was my understanding that Herbert would be the chair when I asked to be on the committee, and the fact that this question was already answer was a factor in my decision to try to help. Being the committee chair is less a position of power, and more a position of responsibility. I think we can be very happy to have someone who is willing to do the job, and I absolutely trust hvr to be up to the task.
If needed, we can revisit the question over time when we have a better idea how our usual workflow and processes look like, but I don't think we need to or should have this discussion now. Cheers, Andres On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello *, > > On 2016-04-29 at 15:17:43 +0200, Richard Eisenberg wrote: >> Is there a chair of this committee? Herbert has been acting as such >> (thank you!) but doesn't list himself as the chair in the initial >> announcement. >> >> I am **in no way** trying to change any status quo and >> am **not** interested in being chair at the moment, but I just wanted >> to clarify. > > Fwiw, I mentioned in the preceding CfN > (https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2015-September/003936.html) > that > > | In consultation with the current members of the Haskell Prime > | committee (and Simon PJ), I have volunteered as chair to "reboot" the > | process and get things rolling again. > > But you're right I failed to repeat this in the actual announcement. > > However, I don't want to impose myself on the committee as chair. So if > anyone else feels motivated enough to pick up the role as chair with the > agreement of the committee I'll happily hand over the chair position! > :-) > > Moreover, this doesn't need to be a static configuration: We could also > rotate the chair position (and other duties) over the lifetime of the > Haskell 2020 committee. There just needs to be one designated chair at > any time to keep things moving. > >> The specific reason I ask is that Takenobu Tani recently asked about >> `pseq`. I have no intelligent response to offer, but would want to >> make sure that someone does offer a response. If there is a chair, >> that person is de facto responsible that we, as a committee, >> communicate well, both internally and externally. > > You're definitely right. And IMO the chair only needs to step in if > nobody else feels compelled to respond within a reasonable time, e.g. a > few days -- after all, we all have other duties besides the prime > committee :-) > > -- hvr > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-prime mailing list > Haskell-prime@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime > _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
