<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">Hi,<br><br>Have all core/boot library maintainers been notified to join that mailing list? Where is that information? I don't see it.<br><br>The only reason I got wind of this is because Hécate CCed the library ML as well.<br><br>I remain unconvinced that this is a good way of coordinating releases across 20+ maintainers.<br><br>Information that is necessary:<br><br>- what versions do YOU need?<br>- what versions do maintainers want to see in the next GHC release?<br>- do maintainers want a "backport" of a version bump to an older GHC branch?<br>- relationships between core libraries (that is the case for filepath)<br>- deadline<br><br>This could possibly be expressed in a shared spreadsheet, so that everyone understands the current status without going through mailing lists they're not subscribed to or issue trackers with 10+ posts.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Julian</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On February 5, 2024 2:28:16 PM UTC, Ben Gamari <ben@well-typed.com> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><div dir="auto">Julian Ospald <hasufell@posteo.de> writes:<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"> Hi,<br><br> I'm unsure what the process here is. Do you expect every boot library <br> maintainer to follow GHC issue tracker and comment there? Or to open a <br> PR against ghc repo? I definitely won't do the latter as an unpaid <br> volunteer (I don't want to deal with GHC MRs and CI).<br><br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">We created the `ghc-releases` mailing list for the purpose of release<br>coordination. In the past I have also frequently created tracking<br>tickets in submodules' upstream repositories. I have not done that this<br>time as we have this mailing list but I would be happy to do so if this<br>would be preferable.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"> For 'filepath' and 'unix' (and 'os-string', which is to become a boot <br> package) I'd prefer if you open issues on each issue tracker. If that is <br> too cumbersome, please link me to the place where I'm supposed to <br> comment and give me a deadline.<br><br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Sure, I will create a pair of tracking tickets. The proposed deadline is<br>before the second week in March.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>- Ben<br></div></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>