On 2017-09-08 at 09:19:54 +0200, Anthony Clayden wrote: [...]
> If this is to the committee, shouldn't it be on the committee list? > (I mean ghc-steering-committee.) > Or is there some other committee? I thought the Haskell-prime forum > and process was dead/replaced by the github proposals process? I can see how the proliferation of committees & github repos may seem confusing to casual observers, so let me provide a quick overview which hopefully doesn't worsen the confusion... :-) ## Haskell Core Library Committee - https://wiki.haskell.org/Core_Libraries_Committee Basically, the core library committee oversees decisions of what happens with core libraries such as `base` which includes the API defined by the Haskell library report. However, the Eq/Show=>Num superclass removal proposal (<https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2011-September/016712.html>), however predates the core libraries committee's existence (the CLC was originally formed sometime around 2013 to design and manage big changes such as the implementation of the Functor/Applicative/Monad proposal -- for which there was big community support but lack of leadership was preventing its implementation). Moreover, the CLC together with the Hackage Trustees also maintains the https://github.com/haskell/pvp specification which is integral to the way Hackage and the Cabal solver interact. ## Haskell Language Committee (aka Haskell Prime Committee) - https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2016-April/004050.html So this committee's incarnation has just been formed last year; it's a bit too early to declare it dead. ## GHC Steering Committee - https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/SteeringCommittee This is mostly about user-facing changes to GHC and was created shortly after the prime committee's formation was announced. It surely wasn't intended to replace the prime committee, but was rather formed as a reaction to complaints about GHC's governance, you can read up about its intent at - https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/rethinking-proposals Not all changes are even relevant to the Haskell Report (like e.g. warning flags); but Report-relevant changes may start their life-cycle as GHC extensions to get some empirical field-testing, and if desirable to later be promoted to Haskell Prime proposals subject to the Prime process. ## Other Committees For completeness, here's a few other Haskell-related committees and/or working-group like processes OTTOMH: ### Haskell.org committee - https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell.org_committee ### The Haskell.org Website Working Group (HWWG) - https://github.com/ndmitchell/hwwg ### Haskell Ecosystem Proposals - https://github.com/haskell/ecosystem-proposals ### Industrial Haskell Group - http://industry.haskell.org ### Commercial Haskell Group - https://github.com/commercialhaskell/commercialhaskell HTH, HVR _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
