Let me strongly support Gaby's many points. Simon has it right: we need a way to support 'users' in a stable way, without adding enormous inertia to the development of GHC. I has lived through the slow death of a system from being rapidly innovative to having 'innovations' which exist only because a marketer says that the raft of boring, incremental improvements in each new release are innovative on some What's New blurb. Haskell is extremely useful, and GHC's flavour of Haskell is quite exciting because of the continual evolution of the language. Please don't kill the excitement! The Platform does seem to be an ideal mechanism to provide stability for users who value stability over bleeding-edge. But for that to be successful, there are to be strong community commitment [especially from library maintainers] to tracking that evolution. If the social mechanisms are not strong enough to fully support the Platform, I would say that that is the most important thing to fix. Jacques