[ghc-steering-committee] Need more Trac tickets

[Richard Eisenberg]

This idea originally rose during a conversation where a collaborator was looking for proposals to implement. He had assumed that all proposals in the repo were unimplemented (otherwise, in his thinking, they weren't proposals anymore). In any case, we discovered that it's not easy to tell whether a proposal is implemented or not. If it can be assumed that all implemented proposals have tickets, then I suppose we're OK, as long as the proposal is updated with the ticket.

Richard

> On Jun 2, 2018, at 1:44 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 29.05.2018, 15:59 -0400 schrieb Richard Eisenberg:
>> Ryan Scott very helpfully this morning labeled the Trac tickets that
>> have grown from proposals. However, there remain a good many
>> proposals without corresponding Trac tickets.
>> 
>> I propose that we make it a shepherd's responsibility to make sure
>> that a Trac ticket is created upon the acceptance of a proposal.
>> Specifically: a shepherd should encourage the proposer to make the
>> Trac ticket, and if this fails to happen, then for the shepherd to do
>> it himself. (Why have the proposer do it? 1. To lessen the burden on
>> the shepherd. 2. To subtly encourage the proposer to ponder the
>> possibility of implementing.)
>> 
>> What do we think? We'll still have to make tickets for those accepted
>> proposals but with not tickets...
> 
> I am not too keen on additional red tape, and would rather leave the
> process organically. If anyone, whether shepherd, proposer or anyone
> else is attached enough to the proposal to create a ticket. If not,
> then the proposal was probably a good but not very important idea, and
> may – as far as I am concerned – stay in the “can be implemented
> whenever someone feels like it” state eternally.
> 
> Cheers,
> Joachim
> 
> 
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