Hello Gabriel, On 2015-01-27 at 22:53:35 +0100, Gabriel Gonzalez wrote:
Whether or not we use Github, you have to admit that the development process for core libraries is not very transparent in its current form. We have evidence for this right now: lots of people have been complaining that they never realized that this change got into GHC-7.10.
Fwiw, this is what I commented already a couple of months ago addressing a complaint that the changes were hidden from the public (although the complaint was then revised to refer to the decisions being non-transparent): http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2if0fu/on_concerns_about_haskells_p...
You don't have to adopt my specific suggestion, but you can't just keep doing business as usual either and pretend that there isn't a problem. If you reject my Github suggestion then propose a better solution for increasing the transparency and visibility of the process.
Just a thought (I heard elsewhere): We already have "GHC Weekly News", what about "Haskell Libraries Weekly News" to cover the highlights (especially library proposal) of this mailing list (if we can find a volunteer to do the weekly write-up)?
On 1/27/15, 1:40 PM, David Feuer wrote:
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