On 2017-09-08 at 08:43 AM, Herbert RIedel wrote:

Thank you Herbert for the explanation.

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On 2017-09-08 at 09:19:54 +0200, Anthony Clayden wrote:

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I can see how the proliferation of committees & github repos may seem confusing to casual observers, ...

Not that so much. I saw: A message from Carter about lunch queues. A new topic from Carter with a 5-word Subject line, not saying it was a proposal; saying something about some committee approving something; with a smiley; several more messages with smileys (a couple from you). That doesn't seem to follow the process in the link you sent. Nothing saying this is a proposal. Nothing explaining or motivating. Now you're referring me back to a 2011 version of some proposal. It's hardly providing context. To repeat: think about all the Haskellers reading this list. So for anybody not at ICFP (I'm not) what's going on? Are you just a bunch of clowns joking around? It doesn't seem to be April 1st. This from you is relevant:

## Haskell Core Library Committee

... (the CLC was originally formed sometime around 2013 to design and manage big changes such as the implementation of the Functor/Applicative/Monad proposal -- for which there was big community support but lack of leadership was preventing its implementation).

Whether or not everything under the FTP were sensible changes (I think not), the actual communication of what was to change was lousy, and the consultation/decision process was rushed at the end. There are still people grumbling about it. You seem at risk of repeating that. AntC