Having Herbert as chair was also my understanding, and I'm very happy for him to chair these discussions.
Nick On 30 April 2016 at 09:38, Andres Löh <andres.l...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime