We (GHC HQ) are still learning the transition to wider participation in building and hacking on GHC, which we *very much* welcome. Bear with us if we don't get it right first time. We're trying!
And I very much like the steps I've seen recently in explaining what you're doing (sometimes even before you're doing it;-). However, there are so many lists to choose from, and many often opinionated discussions on many of them that will bury those informative messages of yours rather quickly. So if anyone joins the world of GHC in a few weeks, they will be just as lost as everyone was before you started outlining your plans and giving high-level summaries of on-going work in more detail. Perhaps it would be useful for GHC HQ to have a GHC project blog, like other non-trivial projects that like to talk about what they are doing/planning and how the pieces fit together (for examples, see: google, opera, ..)? The follow-on discussions should still be on cvs-ghc, or on cvs-libraries, or on libraries, or on glasgow-haskell-users, or on ghc wiki or trac, or whatever the topic requires. But the original information would be collected in a single place, on a blog with rss feed to which interested parties could be refered. Given the number of things going on, I'm sure such a blog would become required reading rather quickly, even for those not subscribed to cvs-ghc, etc. Just another suggestion;-) Claus