Is there information anywhere on the process for acceptance/rejection criteria. It sounds like hvr can outright reject any proposal - are there others with that power? What is generally required for acceptance? Not meant critically, just interested
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019, 8:01 pm Mario Blažević <mblaze...@stilo.com wrote: > A month passed since the last call, and I'm sorry to say that the > Applicative/Monad proposal has been rejected. Herbert has vetoed it on > the grounds that it doesn't come packaged with MonadFail and > MonadOfNoReturn proposals. > > This is very unfortunate because (I thought) there was finally a glimmer > of hope for Haskell 2020. The new process used to complete the > RelaxedPolyRec proposal seemed promising, as it worked around the > commitee's letargy problem. As it turns out, that wasn't the only problem. > > In all fairness, Herbert did state [1] he intends to write up the > combination of AMP, MFP, and MNRP the way he likes it. I do hope that > happens, but when and if he submits the combined proposal, I would not > be surprised if, for example, Philippa should veto it on the grounds > that it doesn't include the ApplicativeDo proposal that she's been vocal > about. This committee is a far cry from the one that gave us Haskell '98. > > A Haskell 2020 report with no AMP would be pointless, in my opinion, so > I'm going to suspend my work on the report until this issue is resolved. > I still think the best course of action may be to disband the current > disfunctional committee and form a new one, as I proposed [2] before > establishing the new process. > > [1] https://github.com/haskell/rfcs/pull/1#issuecomment-448126690 > [2] > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2018-October/004370.html > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-prime mailing list > Haskell-prime@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime >
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