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

[Ben Gamari]

For what it's worth, we do provide nightly builds as a natural result of our CI infrastructure. Perhaps we should draw more attention to this fact.

Cheers,

Ben 

On July 6, 2019 2:21:33 AM EDT, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>
>On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, John Ericson wrote:
>
>> Yeah there are many interlocking issues here. I've been thinking
>about 
>> writing one of those ecosystem proposals about this. Here's some
>observations 
>> about the status quo for now.
>>
>> - Frequent releases are a really nice for feature for the community.
>I know 
>> I, for one, would be less motivated to work on GHC if it would take a
>year in 
>> some case for my contributions to trickle back to my day job. Rust
>releases 
>> every 6 *weeks*. I see no reason why we shouldn't aim for that.
>
>In the past we had nightly builds. They are not quite releases but if 
>provided as, say, Debian packages it would be easy to install and
>upgrade 
>them.
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