| > 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 proposals pave
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals
to describe how you can up a "pre-proposal". That is, document
the entire process in one, easy to find, place.
Mind you, I'm unclear about the distinction between a pre-proposal
and a proposal. Both are drafts that invite community discussion,
prior to submitting to the committee for decision.
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Glasgow-haskell-users <glasgow-haskell-users-
| boun...@haskell.org> On Behalf Of Anthony Clayden
| Sent: 02 May 2018 02:34
| To: glasgow-haskell-us...@haskell.org; ghc-devs@haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals
|
| > On May 1, 2018, at 2:24 PM, David Feuer <david.feuer at
| gmail.com> 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 datapoint, I found ghc-users and the café just fine for those
| discussions.
| Ghc-users seems to have very low traffic/is rather wasted currently.
| And I believe a lot of people pre-discuss on reddit.
| For ideas that have been on the back burner for a long time, there's
| often wiki pages. (For example re Quantified
| Constraints.)
|
| > I'd like to propose that we open up the GitHub issues
| tracker for ghc-proposals to serve as a place to discuss pre-proposal
| ideas. Once those discussions converge on one or a few specific plans,
| someone can write a proper proposal.
|
| I'm not against that. There gets to be a lot of cruft on some
| discussions about proposals, so I'd expect we could archive it all
| once a proposal is more formalised.
|
| AntC
|
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