[GHC DevOps Group] Making GHC's fast release cadence work

[Ben Gamari]

Simon Peyton Jones via Libraries <libraries at haskell.org> writes:

> | - the kicker: Any library that wishes to be included in GHC / base *must
> | share maintainership* with the GHC release team / libraries committee,
> | respectively/./ That means those groups can release things whenever they
> | want to unblock themselves.
>
> That seems very plausible to me.   But "sharing maintainership" could be limited to:
>
>   The GHC release team is free to make a minor (patch-level)
>   release of an existing released version of the library L,
>   embodying any changes necessary to make the library work
>   with the new version of GHC
>
> I think that is all that's needed. In general GHC should not rely
> on a bleeding-edge release of a library.  But it's not uncommon
> for tiny changes to be needed, and by sharing maintainership, the
> library author would not need to be bothered about making and 
> releasing those changes.
>
Yes, this is precisely what I was trying to articulate in my original
email (although failed to do so clearly). We would not want to be
responsible for managing major releases; merely incremental patch-level
releases to patch things up to be shippable with GHC.

Cheers,

- Ben

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