Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

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

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

My main motivation was that I had a vague idea, not remotely ready for a proposal, and wanted a place to try hashing it out. My limited experience with glasgow-haskell-users is that it's where threads go to die. Haskell-cafe might work, but it's a bit tricky to pull up all the language extension

Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

On Wed, 2 May 2018 at 8:28 PM, Simon Peyton Jones 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. |

RE: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

| > 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. The Right Thing is surely for the main GHC