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by marcosdumay 2050 days ago
The FP-Complete people have had clear different goal than the rest of the community for a while.

It creates some kind of partition, but it's not very relevant. Anyway, it's not very surprising that they don't want to sit on the same committee.
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krspykrm 2050 days ago
FPC is not that crazy of an organization. Yes, I know in the past there's been drama between its members and other haskellers over stack/cabal etc., but I'd feel more comfortable if the Foundation were able to muster the diplomatic finesse to overcome that.
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marcosdumay 2050 days ago
They are not crazy, they are just of the "I'm doing it!" instead of the "Do you think this is the best?" kind of people. They created some very good stuff (yeah, stack is great, even though I mostly stop at cabal myself), but that's not a committee member attitude.

Anyway, its not a big deal. I even doubt they will have more or less influence over anything because of that decision. It's not like unofficial communication will stop.

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ghostwriter 2050 days ago
> The FP-Complete people have had clear different goal than the rest of the community for a while.

The rest of the community isn't as homogeneous and aligned as one might think either.

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