Task of the HP steering committee

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 18:51 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:38 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> >> Duncan Coutts wrote:
> >>> Maintainers propose their own packages, providing their own assessment
> >>> against a set of criteria.
> >> so if you're a random user/contributor then you have to ask your 
> >> favorite package's maintainer to propose their own package. 
> > 
> > That's my opinion, yes. If you think even that needs discussing then we
> > can mention that when we propose it on the libs list.
> 
> well if I was a maintainer, I might be afflicted by a sort of modesty, 
> and I think a couple other Haskell people can feel that too when their 
> users are saying "we like this".  Of course it's good to make sure that 
> we(haskell-platform people) have maintainer's active consent, by 
> requiring them to "propose" it.  I wonder if I can come up with a 
> wording that makes me happy (since I think we agree on the actual 
> *procedure* we should have) -- probably not really important

It's certainly fine to have multiple maintainers so if it needs a team
to commit to the maintenance needed for HP inclusion then that's fine.
So keen users can volunteer to help the package author and make a
maintenance team.

Duncan