[ghc-steering-committee] Please review #517: Require implementors before proposal submission, Shepherd: Simon PJ

[Eric Seidel]

It is similar, but I think my framing puts the pebble in the right shoe. 

Consider it from this perspective, when we accept a proposal we are *committing* GHC to accept a patch implementing it (assuming it passes code review etc). I think there’s also a general expectation that GHC *will* implement all accepted proposals in a timely manner. That’s why we’re having the present discussion. 

The question is whose responsibility is it to ensure implementation? In principle it should be GHC’s responsibility, but GHC is largely a volunteer-driven project and it’s not fair to expect a bunch of unpaid labor from the GHC devs. 

But the Haskell community at large has an interest in a fully-featured GHC. And the Haskell Foundation represents these interests and has funding to realize them. So what I’m suggesting is that we could partner with the Foundation to establish a bounty or grant program to implement proposals that do not already have a committed implementer. 

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> On Aug 24, 2022, at 06:42, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Am Dienstag, dem 23.08.2022 um 14:01 -0400 schrieb Eric Seidel:
>> Perhaps rather than requiring an implementor to volunteer, we should
>> lean more on groups like the Haskell Foundation to *fund the
>> implementation of proposals*?
> 
> isn’t that the same thing? If the Haskell Foundation (or someone else)
> says “we’ll fund all accepted proposal”, then my proposed requirement
> would be vacuously satisfied.
> 
> Personally, though, I prefer if this committee does not also have to
> worry about resource allocation for the HF…
> 
> Nor do I think that the HF should fund “random good ideas” – there will
> always be more good ideas than resources to implement them.
> 
> Cheers,
> Joachim
> 
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