Good point! I have pushed this change. Thanks, Richard

On Dec 12, 2021, at 7:07 AM, Alejandro Serrano Mena wrote:

I am happy with the proposal. My only suggestion is to include a patch to the main README.md in the repo which links to this particular proposal. This would increase discoverability for those who arrive to the ‘ghc-proposals’ repo for the first time.

Alejandro

El 10 dic 2021 17:51:20, Simon Peyton Jones mailto:simon.peytonjones@gmail.com> escribió:

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Dear Steering Committee

I'd like to propose that we accept Proposal #452: Articulate principles for GHC evolution Discussion: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452 https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452 Proposal: https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst Remember, we are not debating the principles themselves, all of which are embodied in earlier proposals. Rather we are discussing the usefulness of having a place where we articulate the principles, and a process for updating them over time, namely by PRs against this proposal The idea is that the latest incarnation of the proposal is always the current set of agreed principles.

Please respond by Friday 17 Dec. Because it seems uncontroversial, I'll take silence as assent, unless a big discussion arises.

Thanks

Simon

On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 19:23, Richard Eisenberg mailto:lists@richarde.dev> wrote: Dear Committee,

This is your interim secretary speaking:

Articulate principles for GHC evolution, proposing a new "principles" document to be added to the proposals repo, has been proposed by me. https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452 https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452 https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst

I propose Simon PJ as the shepherd, as this is something of a meta-proposal, appropriate for shepherding by our chair.

Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process

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This is all reasonable. When crafting this response my main question was: “is this the right place for such overarching principles”. To which my answer was (almost immediately, I've got to admit) “of course it is the right place for this”. The fact that the document encourages proposals to modify the document when relevant is good evidence of it. And more generally, these principles live where design happens; it all makes sense. /Arnaud On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 9:25 PM Eric Seidel wrote:

Writing down our design principles in one place makes a lot of sense to me, +1

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021, at 11:51, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:

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Dear Steering Committee

I'd like to propose that we accept Proposal #452: Articulate principles for GHC evolution * Discussion: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452 * Proposal:

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Remember, we are not debating the principles themselves, all of which are embodied in earlier proposals. Rather we are discussing * the usefulness of having a place where we articulate the principles, and * a process for updating them over time, namely by PRs against this proposal The idea is that the latest incarnation of the proposal is always the current set of agreed principles.

Please respond by Friday 17 Dec. Because it seems uncontroversial, I'll take silence as assent, unless a big discussion arises.

Thanks

Simon

On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 19:23, Richard Eisenberg wrote:

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Dear Committee,

This is your interim secretary speaking:

Articulate principles for GHC evolution, proposing a new "principles" document to be added to the proposals repo, has been proposed by me. https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452

https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst

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I propose Simon PJ as the shepherd, as this is something of a

https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst meta-proposal, appropriate for shepherding by our chair.

...

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Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process

Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ ghc-steering-committee mailing list ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org

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I have had only positive reactions to this, so I declare it accepted. Joachim, could you merge it? Sorry to have been slow -- I intended to do this before Christmas. best wishes Simon On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 at 16:51, Simon Peyton Jones < simon.peytonjones@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Steering Committee

I'd like to propose that we accept Proposal #452: Articulate principles for GHC evolution

- Discussion: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452 - Proposal: https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst

Remember, we are not debating the principles themselves, all of which are embodied in earlier proposals. Rather we are discussing

- the usefulness of having a place where we articulate the principles, and - a process for updating them over time, namely by PRs against this proposal

The idea is that the latest incarnation of the proposal is always the current set of agreed principles.

Please respond by Friday 17 Dec. Because it seems uncontroversial, I'll take silence as assent, unless a big discussion arises.

Thanks

Simon

On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 19:23, Richard Eisenberg wrote:

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Dear Committee,

This is your interim secretary speaking:

Articulate principles for GHC evolution, proposing a new "principles" document to be added to the proposals repo, has been proposed by me. https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452 https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst

I propose Simon PJ as the shepherd, as this is something of a meta-proposal, appropriate for shepherding by our chair.

Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process

Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ ghc-steering-committee mailing list ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-steering-committee