Greetings, While discussion on this mailing list has been coming fast & furious, actual tangible progress, even as measured on the wiki, has not been as fast. To remedy this, we propose to focus immediately and intently on a few of the most critical topics, and to focus all of our energies on them until they are done. We'd like to go so far as to ask folks to drop discussion on other items until these are solved. The goal of this approach is that we will spend the most time on the critical (and hard) stuff, instead of leaving it for last. We know that we can spend a _lot_ of time and energy discussing relatively small things, and so we want to make sure that these relatively small things don't take up all of our time. We will tackle them later. The topics that John and I feel are critical, and rather unsolved, are: * The class system (MPTC Dilemma, etc) * Concurrency * (One more, perhaps standard libraries) The logic here is that Haskell' will be accepted by the community if we solved these problems, and if we go with some of the most robust and uncontroversial extensions already out there. We will probably partition the committee into subcommittees to focus on each topic. Our goal will be to bring these topics to "beta" quality by mid April. That is, something that we could be happy with, but that perhaps needs some polishing. After that, we may try to pick the next most critical topics with the goal of having everything at "beta" quality by the face-to-face we're hoping to have at PLDI in June. With an eye toward considering related proposals together, we've added a "topic" field to the wiki, and a new query to the front page which groups the proposals by topic: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=topic&component=Proposal&order=priority I'd like to ask folks to please bring currently open threads to a close and to document the consensus in tickets. Anyone can edit tickets, so please don't be shy. your chairs, Isaac Jones John Launchbury -- isaac jones