Dear Haskell Community, The Haskell Prime[1] standardization process has been dormant since the last version of the Haskell Report ("Haskell 2010"[2]) was published, and the original stated plan of publishing yearly revisions didn't pan out. To make an unfortunate situation even worse, with the recent implementation of the Functor/Applicative/Monad Proposal (AMP)[3], the standard libraries of the principal Haskell implementation have diverged to the point of GHC 7.10 giving up to be a Haskell 2010 conforming implementation. This leads to the desire to (at the very least) update the Haskell Report to reflect current reality, and allow GHC to claim compliance against a newer Haskell Report at some point. Since the last Haskell Prime committee was formed, the Core libraries Committee (CLC)[4] came into existence. One of its principal functions has been to review and comment on library proposals affecting GHC's `base` library, assess the long-term effect on the ecosystem and future Haskell Reports, and finally oversee the implementation. In other words, the CLC has been successfully covering the library part of the Haskell Report in the last couple of years. Consequently, the missing piece to get the Haskell Prime process going again is to put together a committee for the core language part of the Haskell Report. The task of the new language committee is * debate and decide (with the help and support of the broader Haskell community) which language extensions are ready for inclusion, and * put in the work to formalize those extensions into proper specifications suitable for the Haskell Report document. In consultation with the current members of the Haskell Prime committee (and Simon PJ), I have volunteered as chair to "reboot" the process and get things rolling again. The first step is a new round of self-nominations to the committee to bring in new contributors and fresh enthusiasm. To nominate yourself please * join the `haskell-prime` list[5], and * send a short email to me[6] or, if you prefer, to the `haskell-prime` list[5] indicating your desire to self-nominate and any relevant experience. Decisions on these nominations will then be made by discussion among the current members of the committee. Nominations close in 3 weeks time. Regards, Herbert Valerio Riedel [1]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Committee [2]: https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/ [3]: https://wiki.haskell.org/Functor-Applicative-Monad_Proposal [4]: https://wiki.haskell.org/Core_Libraries_Committee [5]: https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime [6]: mailto:hvriedel+prime@gmail.com -- PGP fingerprint: 427C B69A AC9D 00F2 A43C AF1C BA3C BA3F FE22 B574