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Please review #669: Initial categorization of language extensions
by Adam Gundry 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

Dear Committee, Trevis Elser proposes a classification of (some) language extensions based on previous work in proposal #601 establishing categories: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/669 https://github.com/telser/ghc-proposals/blob/initial-extension-categorizati… I'd like to nominate Malte Ott as the shepherd. Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process Cheers, Adam -- Adam Gundry, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, https://www.well-typed.com/ Registered in England & Wales, OC335890 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX, England

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Please review #678: Amendment to ImportShadowing
by Adam Gundry 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Dear Committee, Gergő Érdi proposes to amend his import shadowing proposal #652 to clarify the behaviour of module re-exports: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/678 I'd like to nominate Erik de Castro Lopo as the shepherd, as he shepherded the original proposal. Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process Cheers, Adam -- Adam Gundry, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, https://www.well-typed.com/ Registered in England & Wales, OC335890 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX, England

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Named defaults -- attention needed
by Simon Peyton Jones 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Dear GHC Steering Committee Please see https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/672. This is a small amendment to a recently-accepted proposal, prompted by the discovery that the language feature accidentally breaks code that doesn't use it. It's small but important. Maybe not yet formally submitted for our attention, but we want to get something agreed and implemented before the next release. So I think it's worth your early attention. Simon

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Please review #652: Import shadowing
by Adam Gundry 15 Aug '24

15 Aug '24

Dear Committee, Gergő Érdi proposes to allow local binders to shadow names defined in outer scopes: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/652 https://github.com/gergoerdi/ghc-proposals/blob/mu/import-shadowing/proposa… I'd like to nominate Erik de Castro Lopo as the shepherd. Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process Cheers, Adam -- Adam Gundry, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, https://www.well-typed.com/ Registered in England & Wales, OC335890 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX, England

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Arnaud's holiday/move
by Arnaud Spiwack 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

Dear all, As of this Thursday 15th August, I'll be on holiday; I'll be back on the 9th September. Since it's a sizable chunk of time, I wanted to make sure to share: I won't be reading my emails during this time. When I'm back, I'll be living in Japan. Which shouldn't change much for my Steering Committee commitments, I don't think. But it may be a little disruptive at first. Best, -- Arnaud Spiwack Director, Research at https://moduscreate.com and https://tweag.io.

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Please review #570: Native string interpolation syntax
by Adam Gundry 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

Dear Committee, Brandon Chinn proposes to add native string interpolation syntax: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/570 https://github.com/brandonchinn178/ghc-proposals/blob/string-interpolation/… I'd like to nominate Sebastian as the shepherd. Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process Cheers, Adam -- Adam Gundry, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, https://www.well-typed.com/ Registered in England & Wales, OC335890 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX, England

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Please review #637: Modify multiline string proposal #569 to remove one trailing newline
by Adam Gundry 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

Dear Committee, Brandon Chinn proposes to amend the multiline string literal proposal #569 to remove one trailing newline: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/637 I'd like to nominate Eric Seidel as the shepherd, since he was the shepherd of #569. Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process Cheers, Adam -- Adam Gundry, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, https://www.well-typed.com/ Registered in England & Wales, OC335890 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX, England

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Dealing with abuse on the issue tracker
by Moritz Angermann 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

Dear Committee members, I'd like to bring the following tweet (thread) from Matt to your attention: https://x.com/mattoflambda/status/1815536812376707224 It concerns pull request: Allow reserved identifiers as fields in `OverloadedRecordDot` by parsonsmatt · Pull Request #668 · ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals (github.com) <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/668>. We do not seem to be as welcoming as we could/should be? My stance in general around this is probably a bit old fashioned, and what I learned on IRC back then: not to fuel and engage with negative behavior. I'm curious what the other committee members think about this. Best, Moritz

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Proposal #601: extension lifecycle
by Simon Peyton Jones 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

Dear GHC Steering Committee Trevis Elser has submitted GHC Proposal #601 <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/601>to us for consideration. (It was originally drafted by David Christiansen, but Trevis took it over.) It proposes that that we classify extensions into four categories: - Stable - Experimental - Deprecated - Legacy It does not say which extensions are in which category (that's #635, still to come); it simply establishes the categories. *I strongly urge you to accept the proposal*. We have been using this language informally for years, and it's good to nail it down more precisely. There is plenty of discussion on the PR, but it's all about the specifics (e.g. do we want both Deprecated and Legacy; answer, yes). There seems to be a strong consensus around the principle. I don't expect this to be controversial. Please (everyone) can you respond within a week, by *end of day on Thursday 23 May. *Can you - Reply by email - Update the spreadsheet <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e6GdwHmAjeDEUhTvP-b18MDkpTfH3SMHhFu…>with your vote Thanks! Simon

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Contacting me
by Erik de Castro Lopo 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

Hi all, I am a recent new member of the Steering Committee but due to some technical issues I applied for membership via a GMail account. However, I subscribed to this list with my <erikd(a)mega-nerd.com> email address and suggest that people use this address to contact me. Thanks, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/

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