Don Stewart wrote:
Have *any* of these patches been proposed for review?
Hey, chill out dons! Yes, most of them have been proposed for review, and accepted.
containers is a critical library,
I hope not. As has been demonstrated recently, containers still suffers from correctness bugs and performance lacks. No-one should treat it as critical infrastructure yet. Indeed the source code itself still claims "Stability: provisional".
and under libraries@ maintainance.
In general, I think assigning maintenance (of any library, not specifically this one) to libraries@h.o is rather suboptimal. In my view, it is better for a library to have a dedicated individual person who cares about it, than a committee of random strangers who are only focussed on fixing their own problem-du-jour, but lack the wider view. In this case, Milan is not just a random stranger - he has a paper accepted at the Haskell Symposium, to be presented in a couple of days time, about these very patches! That sounds awfully like a "maintainer who cares" to me. Regards, Malcolm