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

[Arnaud Spiwack]

I made a couple of (unessential) wording suggestions on the PR.

At any rate, I think that we bikeshed this one long enough :-) . Let's
adopt it.

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 at 09:03, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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