<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 8, 2019, at 2:05 PM, Christopher Allen <<a href="mailto:cma@bitemyapp.com" class="">cma@bitemyapp.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">If there are no objections, I will re-close the proposal as rejected.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">As I've posted on the GitHub trail, I don't think we should close this quite yet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class="">the opinions and priorities of people</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class="">who simply didn't want the extension or didn't plan to use it weighed</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class="">heavily on where the proposal went. This took it places nobody</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class="">interested in the proposal was interested in moving forward with. We</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class="">might want to consider how we evaluate proposals in light of that</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class="">problem. In the past I've held off commenting on proposals I wasn't</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class="">interested in but considered benign to my priorities. I don't think</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class="">everyone is operating on the same principle and it's making the</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class="">process more bureaucratic and less effective for helping Haskell users</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 11px;" class="">achieve their ends.</span></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a valuable observation. If we broadly split the world into two camps -- those that would like the extra commas and those that don't -- the middle-road solution indeed doesn't serve either one. I'm not sure where to go with this, exactly. But I do think it's worthwhile thinking whether users or non-users are the ones more actively influencing a proposal.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Richard</div></body></html>