[ghc-steering-committee] Proposal #625 Articulate stability goals, recommendation: strong accept

[Simon Marlow]

Agreed, let's do it!

On Sun, 4 Feb 2024, 09:10 Moritz Angermann, <moritz.angermann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Pull request 625 (https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/625),
> is not
> a proposal as usual, but primarily amending the readme and principles.
> Simon has
> taken the Stability discussion we have had last year, and integrated the
> crystalized
> General Rules into the readme and principles.
>
> In my opinion, we have now debated this topic sufficiently, and found a
> formulation
> that captures the intent we want to set forward for the evolution of GHC.
> I think this
> spells out clear guardrails for GHCs evolution, as well as providing
> reassurance to
> commercial users of GHC regarding backwards compatibility and migration
> support
> though deprecation cycles when breakage is needed. As such, I
> strongly recommend
> acceptance of the proposal.
>
> While there has been a recent spark in discussion of warning flags, I do
> not believe
> that discussion to be productive towards the change this proposal tries to
> bring.
>
> I'd like to ask the committee to cast their final votes on this amendment
> to the
> readme and principles, by the end of the coming week. Unless someone
> objects,
> I'll merge this as it is now on the 10th of February.
>
> Best,
>   Moritz
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