<div><div dir="auto">Please do this! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don’t care what forums or list or whatever. As long as it’s collated and such </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It could even be on the prime issue tracker for prime proposals. Just that it’s written down :)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 7:17 PM Anthony Clayden <<a href="mailto:anthony_clayden@clear.net.nz">anthony_clayden@clear.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">On Th, 3 May 2018 at 13:53 UTC, Joachim Breitner wrote:</div><div dir="auto">> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I am worried about the </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">signal-to-noise ratio for those poor committee members ...</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks Joachim, Yes that's exactly the worry. So please tell the rest of us how to best use your collective time.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">First help yourselves/get your own shit together:</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">there's now a long discussion on the committee mailing list about the specifics of #99. There are good questions, good answers, good ideas. None of the rest of use can contribute to that. The committee list is supposed to be low volume/decision making only. WTF?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">(That seems to be triggered by one particular committee member who seldom/never looks at github, and prefers email discussion. Yous others could perhaps coach him?)</span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">hmm, some of that sounds like it would be better suited for haskell-</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">cafe, StackOverflow, ...</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">My point about "sometimes it's more of a niggle" was aimed at exactly your (Joachim's) series of proposals 'Resurrect Pattern Signatures'. The motivation is it helps "confused beginners". But those beginners won't be providing feedback on github. Instead you've got feedback from experienced users who've all said they see no point in the proposal. So the discussion has gone round and round and spun off other proposals. That whole series of discussions would be better happening somewhere else: where?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">David's quite correct</span></div><div dir="auto">>> Haskell-cafe might work, but it's a bit tricky to pull up all the language extension ideas discussed there.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My impression is not many people who could help refine a pre-proposal ever take part in the cafe.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Stackoverflow likewise. (I did raise a 'how do I do this?' type question there. It was David who responded, thank you. But I ended up answering it myself; and it turned out there was already a proposal on the slate.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">>> My limited experience with glasgow-haskell-users is that it's where threads go to die. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(I did try to continue one of David's threads there a few months ago.) But yes, my experience too. And that's sad because it's a wasted resource. I'm grateful to Simon for noticing this thread; but most topics I've raised on ghc-users have gone nowhere. So then I've tried pursuing them by poaching on Trac or github -- which is an abuse, I know.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Most vague ideas get better when the proposer is nudged to sit down and </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">write it up properly! (And some get dropped in the process, which is </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">also good :-)).</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Yes exactly what I'm trying to get to happen. How/where?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Here's a specific example: there's talk of baking ScopedTypeVariables into the H2020 standard. There's also people unhappy with ScopedTypeVariables as currently (I'm one, but I don't know if my reservations are the same as others'). If we don't have an alternative proposal (and preferably an experimental extension) by 2020, the committee can only go with the as currently fait accompli or continue the H2010 status quo.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I can volunteer to at least scrape together all the objections to ScopedTypeVariables as currently. It's not yet a proposal, so not on github. Start a wiki page? A cafe thread? (It'll get lost.) A ghc-users thread? (It'll get ignored.)</span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">AntC</div><div dir="auto"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></pre></div>
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