Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals

[Simon Peyton Jones]

|  > Sometimes, a language extension idea could benefit from
|  some community discussion before it's ready for a formal proposal.
|  
|  Can I point out it's not only ghc developers who make proposals. I'd
|  rather you post this idea more widely.

The Right Thing is surely for the main GHC proposals pave
	https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals
to describe how you can up a "pre-proposal".  That is, document
the entire process in one, easy to find, place.

Mind you, I'm unclear about the distinction between a pre-proposal
and a proposal.  Both are drafts that invite community discussion,
prior to submitting to the committee for decision.

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Glasgow-haskell-users <glasgow-haskell-users-
|  bounces at haskell.org> On Behalf Of Anthony Clayden
|  Sent: 02 May 2018 02:34
|  To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org; ghc-devs at haskell.org
|  Subject: Re: Open up the issues tracker on ghc-proposals
|  
|  > On May 1, 2018, at 2:24 PM, David Feuer <david.feuer at
|  gmail.com> wrote:
|  >
|  > Sometimes, a language extension idea could benefit from
|  some community discussion before it's ready for a formal proposal.
|  
|  Can I point out it's not only ghc developers who make proposals. I'd
|  rather you post this idea more widely.
|  
|  As a datapoint, I found ghc-users and the café just fine for those
|  discussions.
|  Ghc-users seems to have very low traffic/is rather wasted currently.
|  And I believe a lot of people pre-discuss on reddit.
|  For ideas that have been on the back burner for a long time, there's
|  often wiki pages. (For example re Quantified
|  Constraints.)
|  
|  > I'd like to propose that we open up the GitHub issues
|  tracker for ghc-proposals to serve as a place to discuss pre-proposal
|  ideas. Once those discussions converge on one or a few specific plans,
|  someone can write a proper proposal.
|  
|  I'm not against that. There gets to be a lot of cruft on some
|  discussions about proposals, so I'd expect we could archive it all
|  once a proposal is more formalised.
|  
|  AntC
|  
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