Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Extra Commas

On Jul 8, 2019, at 2:05 PM, Christopher Allen wrote:

If there are no objections, I will re-close the proposal as rejected.

As I've posted on the GitHub trail, I don't think we should close this quite yet.

the opinions and priorities of people who simply didn't want the extension or didn't plan to use it weighed heavily on where the proposal went. This took it places nobody interested in the proposal was interested in moving forward with. We might want to consider how we evaluate proposals in light of that problem. In the past I've held off commenting on proposals I wasn't interested in but considered benign to my priorities. I don't think everyone is operating on the same principle and it's making the process more bureaucratic and less effective for helping Haskell users achieve their ends.

This is a valuable observation. If we broadly split the world into two camps -- those that would like the extra commas and those that don't -- the middle-road solution indeed doesn't serve either one. I'm not sure where to go with this, exactly. But I do think it's worthwhile thinking whether users or non-users are the ones more actively influencing a proposal. Richard