I care about them -- but I'm implicated in the proposal.
I suspect the silence is mostly to do with the fact that it’s a substantial proposal. It's certainly much more far-reaching than most of the proposals that we devote our time to. That's good -- but it's also daunting.
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-steering-committee On Behalf Of Joachim Breitner
| Sent: 19 May 2018 19:45
| To: ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org
| Subject: Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Volutneer shepherding for linear
| types sought
|
| Hi,
|
| this has been met with dead silence … here is a loaded question: Who
| here cares about linear types? :-)
|
| Cheers,
| Joachim
|
| Am Mittwoch, den 09.05.2018, 16:21 -0400 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
| > Hi committee,
| >
| > usually, when a proposal has been submitted, I just pick a
| shepherd¹.
| > But I feel the linear types proposal, at
| > https://github.com/tweag/ghc-proposals/blob/linear-
| types2/proposals/00
| > 00-linear-types.rst is not something I can just impose on any of
| you.
| >
| > Therefore, I’d like to have a volunteer to step forward and claim
| this
| > one.
| >
| >
| > Any takers?
| >
| > Joachim
| >
| >
| > ¹ In case you are curious, I look at this data to make a pick:
| > * Low number of pending proposals shepherded
| > * Low number of total proposals handled
| > * Prior activity on the proposal discussion
| > * Expertise and interest, as perceived by me
| > You can influence that easily by engaging in a proposal discussion
| > before it is submitted; that’s a sure way of getting a proposal
| > assigned.
| >
| > _______________________________________________
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| committ
| > ee
| --
| Joachim Breitner
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| http://www.joachim-breitner.de/
