Hey all, Just a reminder from your friendly Haskell Platform infrastructure team: we are now entering the "call for consensus" period for the current round of Haskell Platform changes. What consensus is, and how we achieve it, is described here: * http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages#Consensus As a reminder, the key points are: * People who participate in the review process for a package are expected to participate in the call for consensus. * Each time there is a call for consensus, everyone has three options: + Say nothing. This indicates you're prepared to accept the current proposal. + Stand aside. An email to say that you do have unresolved concerns but you are prepared to see the proposal accepted to further community goals. + Raise objection. Objections need accompanying reasoning so that others can try to work with that reasoning to find a resolution to the issue. And remember, **our goal is to give the greatest benefit to the community, not to achieve perfection.** Once we've done a few of these, I expect libraries@ to become quite efficient: just keep the goals of the Haskell Platform, and the Haskell community in mind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The discussion period (Stage 1) extended from September 1 through November 1, which ends with the consensus calls. The two proposals under consideration (our very first additions to the HP in 2 years of work! ... ) are: text * http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/145 mtl * http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/152 The mtl proposal has officially entered the consensus phase now, text will follow shortly. All discussion should be finalized by Dec 15 at the latest, after which the package set is frozen for the January release. -- Don