27 Jan
2015
27 Jan
'15
3:49 p.m.
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
I do think that the current social mechanisms for changing the Haskell base library are less than ideal. It sometimes feels like someone can send a message to a mailing list with a "bright idea", and so long as only a few people see it, and those that do see it do not object, the proposal is automatically accepted. That would be fine for any library _except_ base, which I think ought to be much more stable.
Maybe we should try a voting scheme that entirely relies on rejection rather than acceptance. In such a scheme the solution that causes the minimal overall resistance would win.