[ghc-steering-committee] GHC Steering Committee Status

[Joachim Breitner]

Dear Committee,

we had some relatively quiet two weeks on this mailing list, but that
quiet doesn’t really fit to the relatively long backlog. Let’s clear it
out a bit, if we can!

What has happened since the last one update (March 16)?

 * Arnaud continues the quest to understand the roles of Extensions.

 * we were asked to review these proposals:
  
   #579: Backward compat proposal section, Shepherd: Simon PJ
   #575: Deprecated instances, Shepherd: Moritz
   #585: Amend Or Patterns, Shepherd: Richard
   #493: SPECIALISE with expressions, Shepherd: Adam

 * we have a recommendation from the shepherd about:

   #536: Type-level literals as a separate language extension, rec: accept
   #579: Backward compat proposal section, rec: accept

 * we have sent the following proposals back to revision

   #330: Decorate exceptions with backtrace information, Shepherd: Vlad

 * we decided about the following proposals

   #540: parallelism semaphores, rec: accept


So we currently have to act on the following 8 proposals, up again by 2:

## Waiting for committee decision

#532: Clean up implicit binding, Shepherd: Arnaud   
      2022-08-23: Assigned to Arnaud
      Sent back for revision
      2022-11-27: Resubmitted
      2022-12-14: Arnaud recommends acceptance
      2023-01-17: Arnaud picks up the conversation again.
      Silence since.

#512: NoFieldSelectors as datatype annotation, Shepherd: Vlad
      2022-09-03: Assigned to Baldur
      2022-10-02: Reassignd to Vlad
      2022-11-30: Vlad recommends rejection
      Turned into a discussion of Modifiers, and then
      into silence.  Where are we on this one?

#536: Type-level literals as a sep language extension, Shepherd: Vlad
      2023-02-16 Assigned to Vlad
      2023-03-06 Vlad recommends acceptance
      Some hesitancy in the committee to introduce this extension,
      the ongoing policy clarification process might guide us, 
      but maybe we can resolve this earlier?

#579: Backward compat proposal section, Shepherd: Simon PJ
      2023-03-30: Assigned to Simon
      2023-03-30: Simon recommends acceptance
      Adam had a question that went unanswerd. Can we resolve this?

## Waiting for shepherd recommendation

#526: Applicative Comprehensions, Shepherd: Simon M
      2022-10-08: Assigned to Simon M
      Simon, can you cast your recommendation?

#585: Amend Or Patterns, Shepherd: Richard
      2023-04-11: Assigned to Richard

#575: Deprecated instances, Shepherd: Moritz
      2023-04-06: Assigned to Moritz

#493: SPECIALISE with expressions, Shepherd: Adam
      2023-05-17: Assigned to Adam

Cheers,
Joachim


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Joachim Breitner
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