Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

2018-05-05 Thread Anthony Clayden
> On Th, 3 May 2018 at 13:53 UTC, Joachim Breitner wrote: > I am worried about the signal-to-noise ratio for those poor committee > members who have not given up on following the GitHub notifications for > the ghc-proposals repository > > Almost by definition, Issue-tracker traffic should

Scoped type variables Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

2018-05-03 Thread Carter Schonwald
Please do this! I don’t care what forums or list or whatever. As long as it’s collated and such It could even be on the prime issue tracker for prime proposals. Just that it’s written down :) On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 7:17 PM Anthony Clayden wrote: > On Th, 3 May

RE: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

2018-05-03 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via Glasgow-haskell-users
018 00:17 To: GHC users <glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org> Cc: Joachim Breitner <m...@joachim-breitner.de> Subject: Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals On Th, 3 May 2018 at 13:53 UTC, Joachim Breitner wrote: … > hmm, some of that sounds like it would be better su

Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

2018-05-02 Thread Anthony Clayden
On Th, 3 May 2018 at 13:53 UTC, Joachim Breitner wrote: > I am worried about the signal-to-noise ratio for those poor committee members ... Thanks Joachim, Yes that's exactly the worry. So please tell the rest of us how to best use your collective time. First help yourselves/get your own shit

Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

2018-05-02 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 02.05.2018, 09:53 + schrieb Anthony Clayden: > Speaking as a non-developer of ghc, often there's a bright idea with no very > clear notion how best it fits into Haskell, or could be implemented > effectively/efficiently: > > * maybe it's something seen in another

Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

2018-05-02 Thread David Feuer
omes another backwater where ideas go to get ignored? > > > AntC > > >> >> | -Original Message- >> | From: Glasgow-haskell-users > | boun...@haskell.org> On Behalf Of Anthony Clayden >> | Sent: 02 May 2018 02:34 >> | To: glasgow-haske

Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

2018-05-02 Thread Anthony Clayden
| To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org; ghc-d...@haskell.org > | Subject: Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals > | > | > On May 1, 2018, at 2:24 PM, David Feuer | gmail.com> wrote: > | > > | > Sometimes, a language extension idea could benefit from > |

RE: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

2018-05-02 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via Glasgow-haskell-users
ite community discussion, prior to submitting to the committee for decision. Simon | -Original Message- | From: Glasgow-haskell-users On Behalf Of Anthony Clayden | Sent: 02 May 2018 02:34 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org; ghc-d...@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Open up the i

Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

2018-05-01 Thread Anthony Clayden
> On May 1, 2018, at 2:24 PM, David Feuer wrote: > > Sometimes, a language extension idea could benefit from some community discussion before it's ready for a formal proposal. Can I point out it's not only ghc developers who make proposals. I'd rather you post this idea more widely. As a