Dear Committee, Ryan Newton has expressed interest in being rotated out of the committee. I spoke to the Simons, and they indicate we should ask for public nominations. Here is a draft of a mail I’d send to the usual mailing lists. Please comment. ========================== Dear community, the GHC Steering committee is seeking nomination for a new member, and ask for self-nominations. The committee scrutinizes, nitpicks, improves, weights and eventually accepts or rejects proposals that extend or change the language supported by GHC and other (public-facing) aspects of GHC Our processes are described in the README in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals which is also the GitHub repository where proposals are proposed. We are looking for a member who has the ability * to understand such language extension proposals, * to find holes and missing corner cases in the specifications, * foresee the interaction with other language features and specifications, * make constructive comments and improvements, * judge the cost/benefit ratio and * finally come to a justifiable conclusion. Particular pluses that we look for are * candidates who have been in the community for some time, and/or * who have expertise in language design and implementation in related language, which they can share with us. The committee work requires a small, but non-trivial amount of time, especially when you are assigned a proposal for shepherding. Please keep that in mind if your email inbox is already flowing over. There is no shortage of people who are very eager to get fancy new features into the language, both in the committee and the wider community. I therefore explicitly invite “conservative” members of the community to join the committee. The GHC developers themselves are nicely represented already. Having hacked on GHC is not a requirement. To nominate yourself, please send an email to me (as the committee secretary) at mail@joachim-breitner.de until July 20th. I will distribute the nominations among the committee, and we will keep the nominations and our deliberations private. You cannot nominate others. But if you know of anyone else you’d think should be on the committee, please do encourage them, or talk to us and we can encourage them. On behalf of the committee, Joachim Breitner ========================== Note worth discussing: * I see no point in non-self-nominations. We can only have members that want to do this. * Do we want to encourage “conservative” members? Is that the right wording? (I see the committee a bit as a flood gate that protects against premature and not-worth-it changes. We are doing a good job of that – most of my proposals get rejected ;-) – but I think it would not hurt to explicitly keep it that way. * One could consider public nominations and deliberations, but I feel that a public discussion of who we think is the “best” is not very nice. Cheers, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/