Hi.
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
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
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