[ghc-steering-committee] Please review #452: Articulate principles for GHC evolution; Shepherd: Simon PJ

[Simon Peyton Jones]

I have had only positive reactions to this, so I declare it accepted.

Joachim, could you merge it?

Sorry to have been slow -- I intended to do this before Christmas.

best wishes

Simon

On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 at 16:51, Simon Peyton Jones <
simon.peytonjones at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Steering Committee
>
> I'd like to propose that we accept Proposal #452: Articulate principles
> for GHC evolution
>
>    - Discussion: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452
>    - Proposal:
>    https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst
>
> Remember, we are not debating the principles themselves, all of which are
> embodied in earlier proposals.  Rather we are discussing
>
>    - the usefulness of having  a place where we articulate the
>    principles, and
>    - a process for updating them over time, namely by PRs against this
>    proposal
>
> The idea is that the latest incarnation of the proposal is always the
> current set of agreed principles.
>
> Please respond by Friday 17 Dec. Because it seems uncontroversial, I'll
> take silence as assent, unless a big discussion arises.
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
>
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 19:23, Richard Eisenberg <lists at richarde.dev>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Committee,
>>
>> This is your interim secretary speaking:
>>
>> Articulate principles for GHC evolution, proposing a new "principles"
>> document to be added to the proposals repo, has been proposed by me.
>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/452
>> https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/principles/principles.rst
>>
>> I propose Simon PJ as the shepherd, as this is something of a
>> meta-proposal, appropriate for shepherding by our chair.
>>
>> Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in
>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
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