While proposals for changes to Haskell Platform can be made at any time, this call is for proposals that would like to land in the 2012.4.0.0 release.<div><br></div><div>The 2012.4.0.0 is scheduled for November 12th, 2012. In order for a proposal to made it in that release, it needs to meet the following timeline:<div>
<ul><li><font color="#cc0000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>August 20th, 2012</b></font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - Call for proposals for additions and changes</span></li>
<li><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#cc0000">September 17th, 2012</font></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - Call for proposals ends (no more proposals considered)</span></li>
<li><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#cc0000">October 1st, 2012</font></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - Proposals decided, Initial version list</span></li>
</ul><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>If you are a maintainer of a library that you'd like to be in the platform:</b> Now is the time to get a clean version on Hackage, and then put together a proposal for the haskell-platform list. Please see the process for <a href="http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Adding Packages</a>.</div>
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<b>Outstanding work:</b></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><ul><li><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">There is a proposal to include vector-0.9.1 in the platform</font></li><li><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">There is a ticket to consider including OpenGLRaw — <a href="http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/167">Ticket #167</a></font></li>
<li>There are tickets to consider removing OpenGL and GLUT — <a href="http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/57">Ticket #57</a>, <a href="http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/58">Ticket #58</a></li><li>
There is a ticket about binary being in the platform without being part of it — <a href="http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/191">Ticket #191</a></li><li>There is a ticket about needing hscolour to build the platform, but it isn't part of it — <a href="http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/160">Ticket #160</a></li>
</ul>Please not that none of the tickets is a proposal before the list yet. If the maintainer of those libraries, or someone else, want to propose a change based on those tickets, now is the time to do so. In any event, I will close those tickets on September 17th.</div>
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<b>If you are part of the reviewing process:</b> Traditionally, proposals have been accompanied by lengthly discussions, often resulting in deep API design confabs. As we are approaching a release, I'd like to ask all to consider making this round more succinct if at all possible. In particular, it would be great if proposals were keyed to specific revisions of a library to be considered. If consensus is that something needs to be changed before inclusion - it would be best if maintainers took that input into account, turned another library version and placed that up for consideration. Please note the schedule: I'm going to hold October 1st firm.</div>
</div></div><div><br></div><div>— <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Mark "proposed in a restaurant in front of friends" Lentczner</font></span></div>