[ghc-steering-committee] Base library organisation

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Hello GHC steering committee,

Any views about this?

Simon

On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 10:03, Simon Peyton Jones <
simon.peytonjones at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear GHC Steering Committee
>
> Over the last few weeks, Ben Gamari and I have been discussing with Andrew
> and Julian from the Core Libraries Committee how to make the Core Libraries
> Committee and the GHC developers work together more fluidly; and that
> includes the GHC Steering Committee.
>
> We now have a fairly well fleshed out proposal here.
> <https://github.com/Ericson2314/tech-proposals/blob/ghc-base-libraries/proposals/accepted/050-ghc-base-libraries.rst>
>
> I hope you like it.  As far as this committee is concerned there are two
> particular points of note
>
>    1. We propose a new package, *ghc-experimental*, which depends on
>    *base*.  Many GHC proposals involve defining new types and functions.
>    The idea is that these would initially be in *ghc-experimental*.
>    After they stabilise and become widely adopted, the author (or anyone else)
>    can make a CLC proposal to move them to *base*, which has much
>    stronger stability guarantees.
>    2. Section 5.1 suggests a mechanism to involve CLC members in
>    proposals that involve new functions and types, at an earlier stage.  Some
>    involve *changing *existing types and functions.  It is clearly
>    unproductive for us to debate such things at length, and only *then *to
>    land it on the CLC.
>
>    Section 5.1 also suggests that proposals should explicitly (in a
>    separate section) call out
>
>
>    - What new types and functions it defines
>    - What existing types and functions are changed.
>
> We should add that to our template.
>
> At the moment we are just sharing the proposal with relevant stakeholders
> (yourselves, CLC, stack folk, cabal folk etc), so that we can polish any
> rough edges before making it public.
>
> So, any views?  Personally I think this is a Big Step Forward.
>
> Simon
>
>
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