On 2016-10-04 01:09 PM, Iavor Diatchki wrote:

Hello,

Now that we've started with a few proposal, I am realizing that I have no idea how to proceed from here. In particular:

1. How would I request I proposal to be rejected 2. How would I request that a proposal be accepted

I don't know if we need to fix the acceptance/rejection process so early on. Once a new proposal is merged in, it need not be immediately accepted or rejected. It could just collect comments and adjustments. I see no point in voting for acceptance or rejection until the time comes to prepare Haskell 2020. If my understanding of the process is correct, this raises two more groups of questions. 1. I assume we'd use GitHub issues to discuss and/or point flaws in a particular proposal? 1a. If so, it would be nice to group together all issues related to a paricular proposal, but GitHub issues don't come with much metadata. Do we prescribe some keyword that has to be specified in the subject of each proposal-related issue? 1b. There could be a special "Accept me" issue for each proposal used for tracking its status. GitHub issues can be assigned to milestones, such as "Accepted for Haskell2020", "Last Call for Votes", "Awaiting Comments", or "Work In Progress". 2. How do we prepare the actual Haskell 2020 language report? The report is more than a collection of disparate proposals. The Haskell 2010 report also contains errors whose fixing shouldn't require writing up a whole language proposal. 2a. Would the current text of the Haskell' language report be stored in the same GitHub repository with the RFCs? If not, where else? 2b. Would we merge each proposal into the language report as soon as it's accepted? Whose responsibility would this (largely mechanical) process be?

On 04.10.2016 19:09, Iavor Diatchki wrote:

Now that we've started with a few proposal, I am realizing that I have no idea how to proceed from here.

1. How would I request I proposal to be rejected

I think we should be discussing things, rather than inventing too many processes. The number of people participating is still rather small, so verbally stating that you’re strongly opposed to a feature (in principle or just in its current form) is fairly visible.

2. How would I request that a proposal be accepted

Make yourself the shepherd of the proposal (assign yourself to it), make sure all questions and concerns have been discussed, then send a “last call” style email to the mailing lists or other public places you think should give it a final thought? I think that sounds sensible. David -- My GPG keys: https://keybase.io/quchen