<div dir="ltr"><div>Ben, Everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Great timing! I noticed this the other day for the pretty library that I maintain. For me, the best solution would be to find a new maintainer. I can post on the general ghc/haskell mailing lists for someone who's interested, or if the core GHC team or anyone here could take this on please let me know.</div><div><br></div><div>I've not been involved in the Haskell/GHC communities for a while now and sadly I don't see that changing anytime soon. My work on pretty is limited to life-support, I don't have the time to review and accept any code changes beyond trivial ones.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>David<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 10:22, Ben Gamari <<a href="mailto:ben@well-typed.com">ben@well-typed.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
GHC's core libraries are a critical part of the Haskell ecosystem. I<br>
want to thank you for overseeing the maintenance of this infrastructure.<br>
<br>
However, for the last three weeks the release candidate for GHC 8.8.1<br>
has been ready aside from releases of a couple of our core libraries.<br>
<br>
Naturally, delays like this make it hard for GHC to maintain its faster<br>
release cycle. At the same time, we do not want this cadence to impose<br>
an undue burden on our core library maintainers.<br>
<br>
How do you think we might speed up this process?<br>
<br>
For instance, perhaps the GHC release manager could pick up<br>
some of the "boring parts" of core library maintenance limited to:<br>
<br>
* Version bound bumps<br>
<br>
* Changes of CPP conditionals to accommodate changes in the<br>
compiler and other core libraries<br>
<br>
* Changelog entries to describe these releases<br>
<br>
* Uploading these releases or revisions to Hackage<br>
<br>
Of course, this would merely be an offer to maintainers; this would be<br>
GHC's way of carrying some of the burden that our release process<br>
imposes.<br>
<br>
In general, I am interested in a discussion on how to make this faster<br>
release pace work. Ideas?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
- Ben<br>
<br>
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