Quo vadis?

[Mario Blažević]

On 2018-10-07 11:36 PM, Gershom B wrote:
> Mario: as a non-committee member but interested observer, if you 
> yourself wanted to proceed to put the report in the repo, what 
> obstacles would stand in your way, and could we clear them out so you 
> could take charge of that task?

My understanding is that the canonical home of the report is 
https://github.com/haskell/haskell-report. Can somebody with the 
knowledge confirm this? If so, I (or anybody else willing) can either:

1. submit a simple but rather large pull request that dumps the entire 
source of the report into the https://github.com/haskell/rfcs/ repository,
2. use git subtree to add a fork of the report with full history to the 
https://github.com/haskell/rfcs/ repository, or
3. use a Git submodule to host a fork of the report with full history.

I'm against option #3 because it would complicate the work with new 
proposals, and in this situation we can't add anything that de-motivates 
the potential contributors. From their perspective, options #1 and #2 
are indistinguishable but #2 should be easier to merge back into the 
canonical report whenever Haskell2020(+n) finally becomes official. So 
#2 would be my choice.

Is anybody out there against this plan?

It's worth a mention that I would not actually merge the PR before 
giving another chance to everybody to try the fork, but the plan is to 
merge it into the master before we proceed with new proposal PRs. The 
existing proposals, once accepted, would need to be refreshed from the 
master by their authors.