Re: Status of transformers package

[Andrew Lelechenko]

Dear CLC members, 

Ross has kindly agreed for `transformers` (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/transformers), a dependency of `mtl` and other boot/core libraries, to be adopted by CLC as a core package. Could we please vote on it? 

+1 from me. 

Best regards,

Andrew

On 7 Jun 2024, at 01:05, Paterson, Ross <R.Pat...@city.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi Andrew,

I guess I have no objection.

Ross

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Hi Ross,

There’ve been recently some community questions about the status of `transformers` package. It is a boot package (= needed to build GHC itself), but not a core package (= is not under the aegis of Core Libraries Committee). There is a slow, but ongoing effort to make all boot packages also core packages. How do you feel about it? The point is to have means to deal with a single-point-of-failure problem in case of your unavailability (hopefully for good reasons), so that CLC is able to provide additional / emergency maintenance.

Designating a library as a core package does not impose much on your day-to-day operations as a maintainer. CLC does not interfere with daily development of Core Libraries as long as appointed maintainers keep them in an appropriate shape and support healthy communication with contributors. You can find the full policy at https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee?tab=readme-ov-file#core-libraries

Best regards,
Andrew

[Moritz Angermann]

+1 from me. 

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[Tom Ellis]

+1

Thanks Ross!

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[Julian Ospald]

+1

[Andrew Lelechenko]

Thanks all, that’s enough votes to approve (there is Julian’s vote in a parallel thread). And thanks to Ross for agreeing to it!

I’ll update the CLC repo soon.

Best regards,
Andrew

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