On May 1, 2018, at 2:24 PM, David Feuer
wrote: Sometimes, a language extension idea could benefit from some community discussion before it's ready for a formal proposal.
I'd like to propose that we open up the GitHub issues
Can I point out it's not only ghc developers who make proposals. I'd rather you post this idea more widely. As a datapoint, I found ghc-users and the café just fine for those discussions. Ghc-users seems to have very low traffic/is rather wasted currently. And I believe a lot of people pre-discuss on reddit. For ideas that have been on the back burner for a long time, there's often wiki pages. (For example re Quantified Constraints.) tracker for ghc-proposals to serve as a place to discuss pre-proposal ideas. Once those discussions converge on one or a few specific plans, someone can write a proper proposal. I'm not against that. There gets to be a lot of cruft on some discussions about proposals, so I'd expect we could archive it all once a proposal is more formalised. AntC