Core Libraries Committee
Structure
The committee consists of 6 members:
- chessai @chessai (term ending January 2023)
- Cale Gibbard @cgibbard (term ending January 2023)
- Emily Pillmore @emilypi (term ending January 2023)
- George Wilson @gwils (term ending January 2023)
- Melanie Brown @cigsender (term ending January 2025)
- Andrew Lelechenko @Bodigrim (chair, term ending January 2025)
The committee makes decisions by simple majority voting.
Contacts
Members of the public are suggested to contact CLC primarily via this issue tracker. As a secondary medium with more limited visibility one can use a mail list core-libraries-committee at haskell dot org (public archives).
base package
The primary responsibility of CLC is maintenance of base package (owned by GHC Team).
See more on the topic in PROPOSALS.md.
Core Libraries
As a collective entity CLC owns, but does not maintain so-called Core Libraries:
array,bytestring,deepseq,directory,filepath,mtl,primitive,process,random,stm,template-haskell,text,unix,vector,Win32.
Maintainers of Core Libraries may at their own accord seek CLC approval for controversial changes, but are not required to do so. 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. If CLC finds a Core Library in a neglected state, it can source and install new maintainers or resolve situation by other means.
Libraries that wish CLC to help them with sourcing maintainers may apply for adoption by CLC.
Core Libraries are different from GHC boot libraries: some boot libraries are not Core (and as such are maintained either solely by GHC Team, or by third parties), and some Core Libraries are not required to boot GHC.