Drastic Prelude changes imminent

[Gabriel Gonzalez]

I think that all breaking changes that are approved on this mailing list 
should be migrated to a much more visible Github issue (i.e. 
https://github.com/ghc/ghc) before final approval.  You can still do all 
actual pull requests and coding via Phabricator, but the discussion 
should be on Github, because the barrier for new people to join in on 
the discussion is lower.  You will get a lot more discussion and 
visibility into these changes purely by using Github as the central forum.

This mailing list is not an appropriate forum for discussion for several 
reasons:

A) The volume of email is too high.  Only people who are experts at 
managing their inbox subscribe here.
B) There is too little signal to noise (for a beginner).  Why would a 
beginner want to join a mailing list that debates such dry topics as 
whether or not to add Data.Intersperse.sequence?
C) There's no (easy) way to subscribe to (or mute) a particular thread 
(unlike Github where you can easily watch or mute specific issues)

Pretty much everybody on this mailing list is a die-hard Haskell expert 
and that's not representative of the Haskell community at large.  
Migrating important topics to Github will give us a more representative 
sampling of the community and will also help centralize the discussion 
better.

On 1/27/15, 12:54 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:
> A point about process: I've been aware of this change for quite some 
> time but I wasn't aware of the details (e.g. the changes to 
> Data.List). It's easier to judge proposals like this if the complete 
> list of changes are listed in some proposal page.
>
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