HEADS UP: Final call for 7.10.2 is soon

[Ryan Thomas]

Let me know if there's a need for a release for 7.10.2.

On 3 June 2015 at 16:41, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> There have been some requests for a Cabal library release for 7.10.2. I
> remember something about truncate directories/symbol names being an issue.
> I'm CC:ing the Cabal mailing list for comments.
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Sergei Meshveliani <mechvel at botik.ru> wrote:
>>
>> Please,
>> consider my recent bug report
>> "overlapping instances in 7.10.1"
>> (see my resent email to this list).
>>
>> ------
>> Sergei
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:31 -0500, Austin Seipp wrote:
>> > Hi *,
>> >
>> > I've just finished merging all the latest patches for GHC 7.10.2 into
>> > the STABLE branch. All in all, we've fixed a lot of bugs (over 80
>> > tickets closed)!
>> >
>> > So, we'll probably be doing a 7.10.2 release here in a few weeks. The
>> > tentative plan was around the 14th, although it's not set in stone.
>> > (At worst, it would be pushed from the 14th to the 21st).
>> >
>> > With that in mind, if I could quickly direct your attention to the GHC
>> > bug tracker and the status page[1] - it would be really helpful if you
>> > check if the things you want are fixed!
>> >
>> > Specifically, if you want something fixed for the 7.10.2 release:
>> >
>> >   - Make sure there is a ticket. It really needs to exist or we'll just
>> > forget!
>> >
>> >   - If your bug is critical, please explain why! We really want to
>> > kill showstoppers ASAP, because bugs are much cheaper to fix early. If
>> > that's the case we can bump the priority if it's necessary to make
>> > things clear.
>> >
>> >   - Set the milestone to 7.10.2. It'll automatically appear on the
>> > status page.
>> >
>> > That should be it - we'll be monitoring the status page regularly to
>> > keep track of new things. The current bug list is pretty small - we
>> > may move some of them out, or fix several more. So just try to let us
>> > know.
>> >
>> > As a sidenote, I'm quite happy with this release - it's fixed dozens
>> > of tricky bugs, improved some nasty corner cases in compiler
>> > performance, and overall seems like it will be high quality. Thanks to
>> > everyone who submitted patches!
>> >
>> > I'll send out another email next week as another reminder.
>> >
>> > [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.10.2
>> >
>>
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