<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Ben Gamari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@well-typed.com" target="_blank">ben@well-typed.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I just posted a pair of posts on the GHC blog [1,2] laying out some<br>
thoughts on the GHC release cycle timing [1] and how this relates to the<br>
in-progress Jenkins build infrastructure [2]. When you have a some time<br>
feel free to give them a read and comment (either here or on the Reddit<br>
thread [3]).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This release was actually a bit unusual for recent releases, in that a significant delay did *not* come from working around a major breaking behavior change in a Tier 1 platform; recent examples being macOS's load commands limit and Ubuntu defaulting to position-independent executables.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think this might be relevant to the question of slipping extra stuff into releases: it's become so common to have extra time courtesy of Tier 1 platforms breaking things on us that slipping extra stuff in is now expected.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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