Carter Schonwald wrote:
Are you sure about this approach? I think you need to start with an open discussion , And have a open ended thread about ideas for how to improve how we do things.
I totally agree with this, though fleshing out ideas in a smaller forum first is helpful. An important consideration here is that there are several types of stakeholders in the library proposal process, including * the CLC members, who ultimately decide on core library changes; * proponents ("authors"), who originate proposals for such changes; and * observers ("the wider Haskell community"), users of the core libraries who want to keep track of upcoming library changes and chime in when a proposal affects their own uses of a library. I suspect that the observers are a silent majority, and that a mailing list with public archives is close to optimal for them. (I consider myself an observer and I do like the mailing list for precisely this reason. But I also grew up with mailing lists, not forums, so I'm surely biased here.) In any case I think that any change to the library proposal process should cater to all three types of stakeholders (and possibly others I have failed to think of). In its current form, I believe https://github.com/haskell-core/core-libraries-proposals fails to do that for observers. Cheers, Bertram