Making decisions

David Luposchainsky dluposchainsky at googlemail.com
Thu May 23 15:20:37 CEST 2013


On 2013-05-23 15:14, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> I wasn't suggesting arbitrary decisions ignoring opinions.  On
> reflection "Tsar" carries the wrong connotations.  How about "Core
> libraries facilitating group"?   Or something less dull-sounding, but
> with the same sense.   I like democracy as much as the next person.
> But someone has to drive the process or it wanders into the long
> grass.

The Trac wiki uses the phrase "first among equals" [1] for what we're
calling Tsar here. It's less tongue-in-cheek, but does a way better job
at avoiding confusion. :-)

David

[1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors



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