Status updates

[Roman Cheplyaka]

Hi Austin,

Could you consider #9012 for 7.8.3?

* Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> [2014-05-05 11:54:20-0500]
> Hi all,
> 
>  - The HCAR entry was quickly completed last week thanks to everyone,
> much appreciated for the quick response! And it made me aware of some
> other new things in the pipeline, too. :)
> 
>  - Simon is in-progress reviewing the ORF work still. But it's
> happening, so be patient of course (it's a large patch after all).
> 
>  - After a short discussion last week and a small grace period I
> killed external core, and removed all traces of it from the GHC tree.
> We constantly add things to GHC as Richard noted, so removing
> something was nice, even if a little sad. The result was about 3,000
> fewer lines in the source tree.
> 
>  - I need to send a patch upstream to Ross for the AMP changes, but I
> slacked off a bit since the release of the new transformers got pushed
> back, pending some discussions on libraries at haskell.org - I'll be
> sending the results to Ross later today.
> 
>  - I spent some time working on removing the need for a build from
> creation of the source distribution like I mentioned last week - so
> 'make sdist' almost works out of the box. I believe it works fine, but
> it needs some more testing, and I feel like I should float the patch
> by for review on the list first, Simon in particular might have
> something to say. Do watch this space.
> 
>  - I'm going to continue working on trying HEAD with Stackage and
> putting the results somewhere, I just sort of left this as is right
> now.
> 
> Also, remember from last week, the 7.8.3 milestone has been shaped up
> to be what we will look at - please do look over the tickets here when
> you get a chance! I'll be likely seeing if any new tickets will go
> here today:
> 
>     https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/milestone/7.8.3
>     https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=infoneeded&status=merge&status=new&status=patch&group=status&milestone=7.8.3
> 
> Some other things worth noting:
> 
>  - It's time to merge up a lot of the patch queue. I'll be doing that
> soon - if you floated a patch by and want to discuss it or you want to
> make me aware of a patch you have, please let me know. At worst you
> will just inform me of something I already knew.
> 
>  - Side note, since a few people might be keen to know - Herbert took
> the time this week to move darcs.haskell.org onto a new server,
> effectively putting it in legacy mode. The switch has not yet
> happened, because we need to do a DNS switch.
> 
> That's all, it was pretty light this week for me actually! We didn't
> actually have a call today yet actually, but we will have one next
> week and have more to say for sure.
> 
> Do let me know if you have questions.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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