http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Proposal-Move-the-insta...
re: redoing Num and numeric tower (prolly won't happen)
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/nt0op/i_wrote_a_mod...
also: quality/popularity of packages, as more and more hit git/github, they could post #s of forks, pulls etc, as a crude proxy for ... something