Hi all, Geoffrey Mainland wrote;
What worries me most is that we have started to see very valuable members of our community publicly state that they are reducing their community involvement.
That worries me too. A lot. To quote myself from an earlier e-mail in this thread:
Therefore, please let us defer further discussion and ultimate decision on MRP to the resurrected HaskellPrime committee, which is where it properly belongs. Otherwise, the Haskell community itself might be one of the things that MRP breaks.
Geoffrey further wrote:
Proposal 3: A decision regarding any proposal that significantly affects backwards compatibility is within the purview of the Haskell Prime Committee, not the Core Libraries Committee.
I thus definitely support this, at least for anything related to the libraries covered by the Haskell report. Indeed, I strongly suspect that many people who did not actively follow the libraries discussions did so because they simply did not think that changes to the central libraries as defined in the Haskell report, at least not breaking changes, were in the remit of the libraries committee, and were happy to leave discussions on any other libraries to the users of those libraries. And as a consequence they were taken by surprise by AMP etc. So before breaking anything more, that being code, research papers, books, what people have learned, or even the community itself, it is time to very carefully think about what the appropriate processes should be for going forward. Best, /Henrik -- Henrik Nilsson School of Computer Science The University of Nottingham nhn@cs.nott.ac.uk This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.