Break out the champagne, because the first Haskell 2020 proposal has been fully merged [1]. By fully merged, I mean that the text of the report has been updated, so we have accomplished something material. Should the Haskell 2020 commitee agree so, we now have the option to declare the Haskell 2018 standard finished, merge the report text back into the official Haskell Report, and hand it over to future generations. Admittedly the RFC in question, -XRelaxedPolyRec, was probably the most trivial possible. My preference would be for the members of the committee to follow the lead of this proposal and apply the same process to more significant issues. The process to follow is: 1. Take any RFC you're interested in from the In Discussion column of the repo project (https://github.com/haskell/rfcs/projects/1). Alternatively, write up a new proposal, put it up for discussion, and wait a decent time. 2. If there is no serious objection to the proposal after a while, make sure all technical objections are addressed and move the RFC to the Last Call column. Declare on the mailing list that you've done so. 3. Modify the text of the report on the same branch where the RFC is written up. If there is no objection to the proposal in the Last Call status in the following two weeks (and there is some approval), move the proposal into the Ready for Report column and declare so on the mailing list. 4. Leave at least another two weeks to refine the details of the Report text, then merge the RFC. [1] https://github.com/haskell/rfcs/pull/17