Tentative high-level plans for 7.10.1

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On 2014-10-06 at 11:50:03 +0200, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> On 6 Oct 2014, at 10:28, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
>
>> As I'm not totally sure what you mean: Assuming we already had decided
>> years ago to follow LTS-style, given GHC 7.0, 7.2, 7.4, 7.6, 7.8 and the
>> future 7.10; which of those GHC versions would you have been considered
>> a LTS version?
>
>
> We continue to use 7.2, at least partly because all newer versions of
> ghc have had significant bugs that affect us.  In fact, 7.2.2 also has
> a show-stopping bug, but we patched it ourselves to create our very
> own custom ghc-7.2.3 distribution.

I'd like to point out that's kinda ironic, as of *all* the GHC releases,
you had to stay on the one major release that was considered a
non-proper tech-preview... :-)

Cheers,
  hvr