Breaking Changes and Long Term Support Haskell

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Jeremy <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The LTS solution should work as long as all (or at least a big enough
> majority) agree that the benefits of a  change are desirable, but disagree
> as to the cost of breaking change. It allows the "nice idea but don't keep
> breaking my code" people to co-exist with the "nice idea let's do it"
> people.
>

But as Henrik and Lennart have alluded to, what we have currently is
friction between "half-baked idea, I'll fight against it" and "nice idea,
this is the way to progress."

LTS, seen in this light, is a discussion-postponing move.

What's needed is a "let's agree to disagree and have a long, deep
discussion to understand one another", not "let's agree to disagree. Here's
software for you. And here's software for me. Bye-bye."

-- Kim-Ee
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