Hi all,
Thanks to those who responded to the message below, about improving the process for developing the core Haskell libraries. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions/NewDraft
Feedback has been broadly positive, with constructive suggestions that we've incorporated in the text. I suggest that we leave another week for debate and refinement, and (unless there are some substantial new points) adopt the new process from 9 June.
I hope that's agreeable. (We don't have a process for modifying the process :-)
Johan pointed out the new library submission process to me -- thanks. I am interested in being the containers maintainer under the new library submission process. I have been working on the containers code for some time now (I had another data structure presentation on TFP 2011), my PhD thesis topic is Functional persistent data structures and I have been programming in Haskell for some time now -- I believe I can be the maintainer of containers. With the proposed submission process, I would also like to be the maintainer (this was not true with the previous submission process -- I stopped working on the containers package because of it). I think the proposal is really a way forward. Cheers, Milan Straka