[ghc-steering-committee] GHC Steering Committee Status

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Thank you Joachim for keeping us in touch.

*Everyone*: it's important that we respond to authors in a timely manner
(days or weeks, definitely not months), otherwise the process begins to
feel tiresome and bureaucratic -- and it's disrespectful to our proposal
authors.

Shepherds, your active intervention is critical.  Group responsibilities
fall down the cracks, which is why we need a shepherd for each proposal to
make sure it keeps moving.  If you don't feel able to serve, it's better to
step down.  But it's not very onerous and it's probably just a question of
getting this small task onto your front burner!

So, if you are a shepherd in the list below, please could you find time to
move it along?   It's ok to bounce it back to the author for specified
revisions and resubmission.  Not so OK for it simply to languish.

Thank you!

Simon


On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 at 11:10, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de>
wrote:

> Dear Committee,
>
> let’s do another ~bi~trimonthly status update. There was an uptick in
> submissions recently, and our backlog is on the large side; it looks
> like almost everyone
>
> So what has happened since the last one?
>
>  * Baldur has stepped down, Arnaud has renewed their term and Adam Gundy
> joined.
>    Thanks all!
>
>  * I started a discussion on whether we should have GHC2021. I sense some
> hesitation,
>    but not enough yet to discourage me, so I stated to draft a proposal at
>    https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/559
>    and you are all invited to nominate those extensions you’d like to be
> on by
>    default in the future.
>
>  * we were asked to review these proposals:
>
>    #532: Clean up implicit binding, Shepherd: Arnaud
>    #512: NoFieldSelectors as datatype annotation, Shepherd: Vlad
>    #526: Applicative Comprehensions, Shepherd: Simon M
>    #540: parallelism semaphores, Shepherd: Eric
>    #547: Remove kind constraints, Shepherd: Arnaud
>    #529: Template Haskell quotes as patterns, Shepherd: Adam
>    #451: WARNING pragma with category, Shepherd: Joachim
>    #546: Make Symbol a newtype over String, Shepherd: Chris
>    #556: fix signature scoping #448, Shepherd: Richard
>
>  * we have a recommendation from the shepherd about:
>
>    #522: Or patterns. Recommendation: accept
>    #516: Introduce `-Wincomplete-record-selectors`, Rec: accept
>    #270: Support pun-free code. Rec: accept
>    #500: Add implicit import proposal, rec: reject
>    #547: Remove kind constraints, Recommendation: accept
>    #451: WARNING pragma with category, rec: accept
>
>  * we have sent the following proposals back to revision
>
>    (none)
>
>  * we decided about the following proposals
>
>    #517: Require implementors before proposal submission (reject)
>    #516: Introduce `-Wincomplete-record-selectors (accept)
>    #547: Remove kind constraints, Recommendation: accept
>    #500: Add implicit import proposal (reject)
>
> We currently have to act on the following 12 proposals, double
> the number as last time!
>
> ## Waiting for committee decision
>
> #270: Support pun-free code, Shepherd: Chris
>       2022-01-01: Assigned to Chris
>       2022-08-24: Chris suggests acceptance
>       2022-09-08: Last message
>       Chris, can you conclude this discussion?
>
> #515 Relaxing HasField constraints
>       2022-08-01: Assigned to Tom
>       2022-08-10: Tom suggests acceptance
>       Still no comments. Tom, please drive this discussion!
>
> #522: Or Patterns
>       2022-08-08: Assigned to Richard
>       2022-08-19: Richard recommends acceptance
>       2022-10-18: Last message
>       Richard, is this discussion converging?
>
> #451: WARNING pragma with category, Shepherd: Joachim
>       Acceptance seems imminent
>
> ## Waiting for shepherd recommendation
>
> #330: Decorate exceptions with backtrace information, Shepherd: Vlad
>       2022-06-25: Assignd to Vlad
>       This seems to have fallen through the cracks.
>       Vlad, please make a recommendation!
>
> #512: NoFieldSelectors as datatype annotation, Shepherd: Vlad
>       2022-09-03: Assignd to Baldur
>       2022-10-02: Reassignd to Vlad
>
> #526: Applicative Comprehensions, Shepherd: Simon M
>       2022-10-08: Assigned to Simon M
>
> #529: Template Haskell quotes as patterns, Shepherd: Adam
>       2022-11-16: Assigned to Adam
>
> #532: Clean up implicit binding, Shepherd: Arnaud
>       2022-08-23: Assigned to Arnaud
>       Sent back for revision
>       2022-11-27: Resubmitted
>
> #540: parallelism semaphores, Shepherd: Eric
>       2022-11-08: Assigned to Adam
>       2022-11-17: Re-assigned to Eric
>
> #546: Make Symbol a newtype over String, Shepherd: Chris
>       2022-11-18: Assigned to Chris
>
> #556: fix signature scoping #448, Shepherd: Richard
>       2022-11-27: Assigned to Richard
>
> Cheers,
> Joachim
>
>
>
> --
> Joachim Breitner
>   mail at joachim-breitner.de
>   http://www.joachim-breitner.de/
>
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