[ghc-steering-committee] Status

[Tom Harding]

Apparently so! Apologies for falling behind; I haven’t got into the swing of 2021 yet 😄
I will make sure to get caught up with everything today!

Thanks,
Tom

> On 14 Jan 2021, at 16:27, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee <ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org> wrote:
> 
> |  In addition to the two meta-proposals (bylaws and GHC2021), we currently
> |  have to act on the following 7 proposals, up by 2!
> |  Some need some nudging.
> 
> Tom, I think you offered to be our nudger.  Do you need nudging 😊?
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> |  -----Original Message-----
> |  From: ghc-steering-committee <ghc-steering-committee-bounces at haskell.org>
> |  On Behalf Of Joachim Breitner
> |  Sent: 13 January 2021 22:14
> |  To: ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org
> |  Subject: [ghc-steering-committee] Status
> |  
> |  Dear Committee,
> |  
> |  after 2½ months, time for a new status updates. What was going on here?
> |  
> |   * Well, GHC2021 was going on. Lots of it. But it’s actually coming to a
> |  close
> |     in five days. It will be exciting to see how it affects the Haskell
> |     landscapes.
> |  
> |   * Heh, last status I wrote:
> |  
> |     Richard refines the bylaws in #360. Maybe everybody has a second
> |     look now and then we can merge this?
> |  
> |     I guess that still applies. Richard and I are discussing a corner case
> |     on the PR, but otherwise approvals are coming in, and unless that
> |  changes,
> |     we’ll merge that once we ironed out that wrinkle.
> |  
> |   * Simon introduced the position of a nudger, namely Tom.
> |  
> |     Tom, below are some PRs where you might need to nudge someone!
> |  
> |   * we were asked to review these proposals:
> |     #366: DuplicateRecordFields without ambiguous field access, shepherd:
> |  Tom
> |     #242: Unsaturated type families, Shepherd: Richard Eisenberg
> |     #370: Syntax for Modifiers, Shepherd: Alejandro
> |     #387: The Char kind, Shepherd: Alejandro
> |     #368: Warn on prefix/suffix operators, Shepherd: Tom
> |     #381: Visible 'forall' in types of terms, Shepherd: Iavor
> |  
> |   * we have a recommendation from the shepherd about:
> |     #369: Add sumToTag# primop, (rec: accept)
> |     #366: DuplicateRecordFields without ambiguous field access (rec:
> |  accept)
> |     #381: Visible 'forall' in types of terms (rec: reject)
> |     #242: Unsaturated type families (rec: accept)
> |     #313: Delimited continuation primops (rec: accept)
> |     #370: Syntax for Modifiers (rec: accept)
> |     #387: The Char kind (rec: accept)
> |  
> |   * we have sent the following proposals back to revision
> |     #283: Local modules
> |  
> |   * we decided about the following proposals
> |     #366: DuplicateRecordFields without ambiguous field access (accept)
> |     #370: Syntax for Modifiers (accept)
> |     #242: Unsaturated type families (accept)
> |  
> |  In addition to the two meta-proposals (bylaws and GHC2021), we currently
> |  have to act on the following 7 proposals, up by 2!
> |  Some need some nudging.
> |  
> |  ## Waiting for committee decision
> |  
> |  #387: The Char kind, Shepherd: Alejandro
> |        Looks like it’ll be smoothly accepted, but it’s only a week old.
> |        Will maybe merge in a few days.
> |  
> |  #381: Visible 'forall' in types of terms, Shepherd: Iavor
> |        Recommendation was to reject, but discussion went into the more
> |        abstract “whither dependent Haskell”. But what does this mean
> |        for this proposal?
> |  
> |  #369: Add sumToTag# primop
> |        Essentially accepted, waiting for feedback from the author on final
> |  tweaks
> |  
> |  #313: Delimited continuation primops, Shepherd: Simon Marlow
> |        Mostly positive reception, but there was discussion.
> |        Simon, can this be accepted as it, or does it need more
> |  work/time/discussion?
> |  
> |  #302: \of, Shepherd: Cale
> |        No new discussion. Cale, what is the conclusion?
> |  
> |  
> |  ## Waiting for Shepherd action
> |  
> |  #367: Clarify primops using unboxed sums, Shepherd: Simon Marlow
> |        This is aging… we need a shepherd recommendation
> |  
> |  #368: Warn on prefix/suffix operators, Shepherd: Tom
> |        Tom, your turn
> |  
> |  Cheers,
> |  Joachim
> |  --
> |  Joachim Breitner
> |    mail at joachim-breitner.de
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