Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

David Feuer david.feuer at gmail.com
Tue May 1 19:35:18 UTC 2018


I suppose that would be a reasonable alternative. But to keep discussion
tracking reasonable, I suspect it would be best to close the pre-proposal
PR and open a new one (with mutual links) for the actual proposal if and
when the time comes.

On Tue, May 1, 2018, 3:24 PM Richard Eisenberg <rae at cs.brynmawr.edu> wrote:

> I like this idea, but I think this can be done as a PR, which seems a
> better fit for collaborative building. The author can specify that a
> proposal is a "pre-proposal", with the goal of fleshing it out before
> committee submission. If it becomes necessary, we can furnish a tag to
> label these, but I'm honestly not sure we'll need to.
>
> Richard
>
> > 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. 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.
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