[ghc-steering-committee] Statistical analysis of GHC proposals

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Dear Andrew

Thank you -- that's very interesting.

GHC SC: do look below!

I'm not quite sure what, if anything, we should do in the light of this
information.

Simon

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 at 23:06, Andrew Lelechenko <andrew.lelechenko at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> I’ve been exploring GitHub API capabilities by gathering data on GHC
> proposals. I wonder if any of the numbers below might be interesting to
> reflect on for GHC SC.
>
> Total number of GHC proposals: 441
> Rate of proposals:  5 per month
> Approved proposals: 149
> Need revision:      30
> Declined proposals: 16
>
> Median  time from creation to decision: 101 days
> Average time from creation to decision: 181 days
> Median  time from creation to approval: 100 days
> Average time from creation to approval: 165 days
> Fastest approval:
>         8 days for "Adjust warning category syntax"
> 2nd fastest approval:
>         11 days for "Remove dot from characters allowed in overloaded
> labels"
> 2nd slowest approval:
>         980 days for "Fine-grained unused warnings"
> Slowest approval:
>         1112 days for "Decorate exceptions with backtrace information"
>
> Total activity: 15999 comments
> Median  activity per proposal:          23 comments
> Average activity per proposal:          36 comments
> Median  activity per approved proposal: 31 comments
> Average activity per approved proposal: 51 comments
> Least active approved proposal:
>         1 comment for "Amend the Higher Order Patterns proposal"
> 2nd least active approved proposal:
>         2 comments for "Amend 281 visible forall to work without
> ScopedTypeVariables"
> 2nd most active:
>         313 comments for "Lambda expressions with guards and multiple
> clauses (was: `\\ of`, -XMultiWayLambda)"
> Most active:
>         519 comments for "RecordDotSyntax language extension proposal"
>
> Open proposals: 117
> Median  age for open proposals: 1105 days
> Average age for open proposals: 1215 days
> Newest open proposal:
>         12 days for "Clarify CRLF behavior in multiline strings"
> Oldest open proposal:
>         2960 days for "Mutable constructor fields"
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew
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