[ghc-steering-committee] Status (complete)

[Joachim Breitner]

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Dear Committee,

another “regular” status update. So what has happened in the last two months?

 * Lots of discussion about GHC2020. Enough to make it rather GHC2021.
 
 * Richard refines the bylaws in #360. Maybe everybody has a second
   look now and then we can merge this?

 * we were asked to review these proposals:
   #356: Linear Types arrow, shepherd: Richard
   #351: NoIncomplete, shepherd: Iavor
   #364: Unify Nat and Natural, shepherd: Alejandro
   #283: Local modules, Shepherd: Arnaud
   #367: Clarify primops using unboxed sums, Shepherd: Simon Marlow
   #369: Add sumToTag# primop, Shepherd: Eric

 * we have a recommendation from the shepherd about:
   #302: \of (rec: reject)
   #356: Linear Types arrow (rec: vote)
   #364: Unify Nat and Natural (rec: accept)
   #281: Visible 'forall' in types of terms (rec: accept)
   #283: Local modules (rec: accept)

 * we have sent the following proposals back to revision
   #281: Visible 'forall' in types of terms

 * we decided about the following proposals
   #356: Linear Types arrow (accept)
   #364: Unify Nat and Natural (accept)


We currently have to act on the following 5 proposals, up by 3.

## Waiting for committee decision

#283: Local modules, Shepherd: Arnaud
      Mostly positive, may need more revision though

#302: \of, Shepherd: Cale
      Mostly negative, but still discussion going on.

## Waiting for Shepherd action


#313: Delimited continuation primops, Shepherd: Simon Marlow
      This one is aging. Simon, are you on this?

#367: Clarify primops using unboxed sums, Shepherd: Simon Marlow
      Still rather new.

#369: Add sumToTag# primop, Shepherd: Eric
      Still rather new.


Cheers,
Joachim
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