Simon asks: | >>> I'm referring to Joachim Breitner's work on | >>> splitting the base. | >> | >> So what's the timeline here? | > | > As soon as possible after 7.8 is branched. | | Has there been a decision somewhere on what to do? The wiki page sets | out the parameters of the design, but doesn't have any conclusions that | I could see. Splitting base has the potential to be extremely | destabilising, I want to make sure that we're getting appreciable | benefits in exchange. No, no decision has been taken so far as I know. Happily, I think the new core-libraries committee is planning to think actively about this question. Edward: are you going to have a public mailing list (that anyone can join) for most discussion, plus a private committee-only one for occasional use? Or are you going to use libraries@ for the former? Simon