Dear Andrew
Thank you -- that's very interesting.
GHC SC: do look below!
I'm not quite sure what, if anything, we should do in the light of this
information.
Simon
On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 at 23:06, Andrew Lelechenko
Hi Simon,
I’ve been exploring GitHub API capabilities by gathering data on GHC proposals. I wonder if any of the numbers below might be interesting to reflect on for GHC SC.
Total number of GHC proposals: 441 Rate of proposals: 5 per month Approved proposals: 149 Need revision: 30 Declined proposals: 16
Median time from creation to decision: 101 days Average time from creation to decision: 181 days Median time from creation to approval: 100 days Average time from creation to approval: 165 days Fastest approval: 8 days for "Adjust warning category syntax" 2nd fastest approval: 11 days for "Remove dot from characters allowed in overloaded labels" 2nd slowest approval: 980 days for "Fine-grained unused warnings" Slowest approval: 1112 days for "Decorate exceptions with backtrace information"
Total activity: 15999 comments Median activity per proposal: 23 comments Average activity per proposal: 36 comments Median activity per approved proposal: 31 comments Average activity per approved proposal: 51 comments Least active approved proposal: 1 comment for "Amend the Higher Order Patterns proposal" 2nd least active approved proposal: 2 comments for "Amend 281 visible forall to work without ScopedTypeVariables" 2nd most active: 313 comments for "Lambda expressions with guards and multiple clauses (was: `\\ of`, -XMultiWayLambda)" Most active: 519 comments for "RecordDotSyntax language extension proposal"
Open proposals: 117 Median age for open proposals: 1105 days Average age for open proposals: 1215 days Newest open proposal: 12 days for "Clarify CRLF behavior in multiline strings" Oldest open proposal: 2960 days for "Mutable constructor fields"
Best regards, Andrew