GHC 7.8.3 release

[Simon Peyton Jones]

| I would like to the status of GHC 7.8.3, too. Thanks.

Any day now. When I talked to Austin on Monday it was going to be Monday, then Tuesday.  Maybe today.

Austin: can you brief us?

Thanks

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Kazu
| Yamamoto
| Sent: 03 July 2014 01:17
| To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: GHC 7.8.3 release
| 
| Hi,
| 
| I would like to the status of GHC 7.8.3, too. Thanks.
| 
| --Kazu
| 
| > On 05/27/2014 10:06 AM, Austin Seipp wrote:
| >> Hello all,
| >>
| >> After a long week, I've finally gotten a little time to reply to
| >> emails, and I mainly have one question I'd like to ask.
| >>
| >> First, please direct your attention to this:
| >>
| >>
| https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&status=merge&sta
| >>
| tus=patch&milestone=7.8.3&group=resolution&col=id&col=summary&col=own
| >> er&col=type&col=priority&col=component&col=version&order=priority
| >>
| >> This is the 7.8.3 milestone, but it only considers things that are:
| >>
| >>  - 1) Fixed
| >>  - 2) Going to be merged
| >>  - 3) Are a patch to be still merged.
| >>
| >> That is, it is a solid representation of the difference between
| 7.8.2
| >> and the 7.8 branch tip.
| >>
| >> The question is: when should we do the release? There are several
| >> bugs there that seem quite problematic for users - #9045, #7097,
| >> #9001,
| >> #8768 and #9078 in particular.
| >>
| >> If these bugs are really problematic (and I sort of feel they are)
| >> then the release can happen soon. I can do it within a week from
| now,
| >> and we could punt more to a 7.8.4 release.
| >>
| >> I ask this because my time to dedicate to GHC is a bit thin right
| >> now, so you must help me decide what's important! So please let me
| >> know - just a general vote in favor of doing it within some X
| >> timeframe (even 'real soon' or 'a week would be great') would be
| nice.
| >>
| >> PS: I apologize for the lack of status updates and brief email - my
| >> time for GHC has been in very short order the past two weeks in
| >> particular, and I've finally just returned to a computer (not mine)
| >> for right now to ask this.
| >>
| >> PPS: This might also impact the 7.10 schedule, but last Simon and I
| >> talked, we thought perhaps shooting for ICFP this time (and actually
| >> hitting it) was a good plan. So I'd estimate on that a 7.8.4 might
| >> happen a few months from now, after summer.
| >>
| >
| > It has been a month since and the general opinion seems to have been
| > Real Soon Now, are there any big blockers?
| >
| > --
| > Mateusz K.
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