[ghc-steering-committee] Haskell 2020 Survey

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi Committee,

in case you didn’t see it: The yearly “State of Haskell Survey” 
at https://haskellweekly.news/survey/2020.html traditionally asked for
“Which language extensions would you like to be enabled by default”.

In pro-active anticipation of our GHC2020 process, they have changed
the survey to let the community vote in favor, against, or abstain each
extension. This should be sufficient for us to gauge whether there is
interest in an extension being on by default, and whether there is
contention about it.

Just as Simon Marlow, I see no point in doing a very similar poll
shortly after, and would just use the data coming out of that for
GHC2021 (assuming we do the GHC2021 thing). I’ll say so (“If there is a
GHC2021 language set, then the committee will very likely take the
outcome of this poll into account.”) publicly, to encourage the
community to take part in the survey.

Cheers,
Joachim

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