[GHC DevOps Group] New release process

[Boespflug, Mathieu]

On 24 October 2017 at 00:43, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> 10 months is long.  I thought we were aiming for 6 months max, so as to reduce pressure to "just get this in"?
>
> If we fork 4 months before release, does that mean that nothing makes it into the release branch except bug fixes?  If we have better CI do we really need 4 months to stablise?

My thoughts exactly. I think a key ingredient here will be having a
Stackage channel that tracks HEAD, as Manuel and I proposed at HIW,
and Herbert's head.hackage, as we've heard about recently.