Friends
Thanks to those who responded to the message below, about improving the process
for developing the core Haskell libraries.
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions/NewDraft
Feedback has been broadly positive, with constructive suggestions that we've
incorporated in the text. I suggest that we leave another week for debate and
refinement, and (unless there are some substantial new points) adopt the new
process from 9 June.
I hope that's agreeable. (We don't have a process for modifying the process :-)
Simon
| I think there is general agreement that
| * The library submission process is too daunting, especially because you
have to
| come up with a complete implementation of a proposal before you even know
| whether it's going to fly.
| * The process gets stuck because achieving universal consensus is too
difficult
| * The maintainer "librar...@haskell.org" means that no individual feels
responsible
| for making a decision on a proposal.
|
| What we need is something to put in its place. Simon and I have been cooking
up a
| proposal. Here it is:
|
| http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions/NewDraft
|
| It is aimed just at libraries whose maintainer is listed as
librar...@haskell.org.
| (The thousands of other libraries with named maintainers can obviously do
whatever
| their maintainer wants, although perhaps this new draft may be useful for
them too.)
|
| It's a draft. What do you think of it? Do you think it would be better than
the
| status quo? Can you suggest any improvements?
|
| ALSO: does anyone (or two or three people) want to volunteer to act as
maintainer for
| any of the "Volunteer needed" packages? Johan, I was thinking you might
serve for
| 'containers', perhaps in harness with someone else since it is such a crucial
| package.
|
|
| Simon
|
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