I have filed https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/19278 
<https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/19278> to try to get this sorted. 
Thanks for the quick responses!

Richard

> On Jan 29, 2021, at 4:02 AM, Hécate <hec...@glitchbra.in> wrote:
> 
> Do we provide any kind of versioning or data schema for the JSON dumps?
> 
> On 29/01/2021 09:57, Matthew Pickering wrote:
>> Just grepping Github there appears to be a few users of the flag but
>> no more than a handful. I think you can probably change it how you
>> like.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 8:20 PM Richard Eisenberg <r...@richarde.dev> wrote:
>>> Hi devs,
>>> 
>>> In my work with Alfredo at revising our error message infrastructure, we 
>>> ran across some code that renders error messages as JSON. Given that our 
>>> data structures are changing, it seems natural to change the JSON output, 
>>> too, but it's unclear whether that's wise. The manual currently lists 
>>> -ddump-json in the chapter on "Debugging the compiler", suggesting that a 
>>> change is fine, but I'm not yet convinced.
>>> 
>>> So:
>>>  - Is there someone in charge of -ddump-json? Matthew Pickering authored 
>>> -ddump-json in 
>>> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/commit/91691117fc194c525f58ccd5b266dd1d10493e5a.
>>>  - Are there clients of -ddump-json?
>>>  - Is there a specification of -ddump-json?
>>>  - There will likely be a desire to evolve this feature. What is the 
>>> process for doing so?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Richard
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