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Reword opening introducion
Emphasize concrete goals of individual teams vs shared values.
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proposals/accepted/050-ghc-base-libraries.rst

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Managing API changes of ``base`` is the CLC's primary mandate.
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If ``base`` changes gratuitously, everyone suffers.
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2. **The GHC team wants the freedom to innovate, and to move rapidly to fix bugs and improve performance**.
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GHC has hundreds of extensions, and people suggest more all the time.
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This dynamism is not accidental: it is a core part of the Haskell ecosystem and culture.
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2. **The GHC team wants the freedom to:**
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- Innovate in the language design.
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GHC has hundreds of extensions, and people suggest more all the time, via the GHC Proposals process.
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- Move rapidly to fix bugs, improve performance, and refactor GHC's internals to pay down technical debt.
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The two goals are in risk of conflict, and we have seen such conflict in the past.
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The purpose of this proposal is to reconcile these goals, in a way that satisfies all parties.

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