7.10 STABLE freeze date

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

To stake my claim, I would like to get #9628 (encompassing D426,D438 and
D412) in 7.10. And D445.

Alan

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:45 PM, José Pedro Magalhães <dreixel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd like to get both #5462 <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5462>
> and #9766 <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9766> in 7.10. I'm
> hoping to have them ready for review later this week.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Pedro
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After some deliberation, we've decided that the STABLE freeze for 7.10
>> will happen in approximately two weeks, on November 21st. We're hoping
>> to stick to this date closely, but do read below.
>>
>> This is perhaps a short time to freeze, but right now, we've only got
>> a couple things we're planning on focusing on for the next few weeks.
>> And these are really the major things we're waiting for. See below:
>>
>>  - https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.10.1
>>
>> These are just:
>>
>>  - D155, LLVM 3.5 compatibility,
>>  - D396 and D169, DWARF/source code note work. These are mostly in me
>> and Simon's court to do another review round, but I think will be OK
>> to get them in on time.
>>  - D168, Partial type signatures. The ball is in Simon's court on this
>> one, but he's had several good rounds of discussion with Thomas etc
>> from what I understand.
>>
>> Based on our discussions earlier this week, I think these all will
>> make it just in time for the freeze.
>>
>> Nota bene: if there is *any* delay, it will be for these, as we picked
>> them as the highest priority in our own views. It is unlikely we will
>> delay any so people can sneak in a few other things. So, if you want
>> something of yours in, you better get me, Simon & Simon, Herbert,
>> etc's attention pronto! That way we'll have time to get it in first.
>>
>> To make things easier, we'll also be pushing the lhs->hs conversion
>> pretty soon so cherry picking/merges are easier, and do some other
>> cleanups.
>>
>> And outside of that, we've still been having a healthy flow of bug
>> fixes falling into the tree, which is great. So if you're just
>> bugfixing, please keep doing so - we'll be pulling bugfixes into the
>> tree continuously.
>>
>> We will also be pulling in submodule/library updates continuously,
>> like we did for the 7.8 branch.
>>
>> Let me know if you have questions, objections, or really really really
>> want something - but I won't be as nice as last time I'm afraid. ;)
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
>> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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