On August 29, 2016 at 11:15:19 AM, Paolo Giarrusso (paolo.giarrusso@uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
If the poll was announced there, there would still be extra friction. But IIUC only the mailing list was announced there.
There is no poll. There is a modest discussion kicked off by Jason Dagit (who used to serve on the committee, but has not been on it for some time now) about a modest change (at this point swapping the bitrotted minimal installers for the HP minimal installers which are current). The committee does not operate by poll, it operates on the basis of broad discussion (with this list being the preferred venue) and then making choices amongst committee members as informed by that discussion. This is laid out at https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell.org_committee
I might understand the concern about archiving, but haskell-cafe solves that. And "the committee can't be expected to follow discussions" and "is empowered to act" does sound like "the committee can't be expected to listen to the community”.
It means that committee members should be expected to chase all over social media and sort through lots of poor signal/noise ratio to find potentially relevant discussions at all times. Rather, it is better to centralize these things to the extent possible.That’s all. —gershom