[ghc-steering-committee] Re: Nudger

On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 at 08:31, Simon Peyton Jones < simon.peytonjones@gmail.com> wrote:

Let's drop it. It's an important role, but one that can only really be carried out by the co-chairs, and/or secretary. Appointing someone else didn't really work well: not enough motivation, authority, agency..... somehow the dynamics are wrong.

Done. Simon

Nevertheless, it would be good to have a more systematic mechanism for picking up on proposals that are simply languishing: in the committee's inbox but no progress is being made. Maybe that is something the Secretary can do?

Simon

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 at 11:33, Simon Marlow wrote:

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While perusing the GHC Steering Committee Bylaws https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/committee.rst I noticed they mention that one committee member is dedicated the "Nudger". This is a role we introduced back in 2020 as far as I can make out; the nudger at the time was Tom Harding who is no longer a committee member. I don't think we appointed a new nudger when Tom left the committee.

We should either 1. Abandon the idea and remove the text about the Nudger from the bylaws, or 2. Appoint a new nudger.

I don't feel strongly, but lean towards (1). We tried it, it worked so well that we all forgot about it entirely :)

Cheers Simon _______________________________________________ ghc-steering-committee mailing list -- ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org To unsubscribe send an email to ghc-steering-committee-leave@haskell.org