Re: Proposal: Change to library proposal process

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 05:56:48PM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

* Duncan makes a critical distinction between API changes Implementation changes

[...] I think it'd be good if the library-change process acknowledged the above distinction explicitly, and treated the two differently, as Duncan suggests.

Indeed, we should re-affirm that the library submissions process is for interface changes only, and we need to find an easier way to get non-API changes applied, without piling them all on Ian.