Drastic Prelude changes imminent

[Henning Thielemann]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

> I do think that the current social mechanisms for changing the Haskell 
> base library are less than ideal.  It sometimes feels like someone can 
> send a message to a mailing list with a "bright idea", and so long as 
> only a few people see it, and those that do see it do not object, the 
> proposal is automatically accepted.  That would be fine for any library 
> _except_ base, which I think ought to be much more stable.


Maybe we should try a voting scheme that entirely relies on rejection 
rather than acceptance. In such a scheme the solution that causes the 
minimal overall resistance would win.