HEADS UP: Final call for 7.10.2 is soon

[Simon Peyton Jones]

| Now that I have a working GHC development environment (which was easier
| than thought thanks to the good documentation on the wiki), I am looking
| forward to work on ticket #7081 during the summer. When is the
| (approximate) deadline for feature patches for GHC 7.12?

Great!  We don't have a deadline for 7.12 yet.

Everyone: when would you *like* 7.12?
See https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.12.1
for what might be in it.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Wolfgang Jeltsch [mailto:wolfgang at cs.ioc.ee]
| Sent: 04 June 2015 18:29
| To: Simon Peyton Jones
| Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Final call for 7.10.2 is soon
| 
| Hi again,
| 
| I have successfully set up my GHC development environment and have tried
| building incremental-computing with GHC HEAD. And yes,
| incremental-computing does go through. :-) Thank you for the good work.
| 
| Now that I have a working GHC development environment (which was easier
| than thought thanks to the good documentation on the wiki), I am looking
| forward to work on ticket #7081 during the summer. When is the
| (approximate) deadline for feature patches for GHC 7.12?
| 
| All the best,
| Wolfgang
| 
| Am Mittwoch, den 03.06.2015, 14:20 +0300 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch:
| > Hi,
| >
| > I did not try, since I do not have HEAD on my machine and thought that
| > it was too difficult and time consuming to install it. I can give it a
| > try, hoping that the GHC HEAD installation will be painless.
| >
| > All the best,
| > Wolfgang
| >
| > Am Mittwoch, den 03.06.2015, 08:57 +0000 schrieb Simon Peyton Jones:
| > > Wolfgang: did incremental-computing go through with HEAD?
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > > |  -----Original Message-----
| > > |  From: Glasgow-haskell-users [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-
| > > |  bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Jeltsch
| > > |  Sent: 02 June 2015 23:03
| > > |  To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| > > |  Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Final call for 7.10.2 is soon
| > > |
| > > |  Hi,
| > > |
| > > |  bug #10009 appears on the status page with status “new”, although
| the
| > > |  bug should have been fixed in HEAD. Can this fix *please* be a
| part of
| > > |  GHC 7.10.2? At the moment, this bug breaks the incremental-
| computing
| > > |  package in a nontrivial way (and I think it breaks HList too).
| > > |
| > > |  All the best,
| > > |  Wolfgang
| > > |
| > > |  Am Dienstag, den 02.06.2015, 16:31 -0500 schrieb Austin Seipp:
| > > |  > Hi *,
| > > |  >
| > > |  > I've just finished merging all the latest patches for GHC 7.10.2
| > > |  into
| > > |  > the STABLE branch. All in all, we've fixed a lot of bugs (over
| 80
| > > |  > tickets closed)!
| > > |  >
| > > |  > So, we'll probably be doing a 7.10.2 release here in a few
| weeks.
| > > |  The
| > > |  > tentative plan was around the 14th, although it's not set in
| stone.
| > > |  > (At worst, it would be pushed from the 14th to the 21st).
| > > |  >
| > > |  > With that in mind, if I could quickly direct your attention to
| the
| > > |  GHC
| > > |  > bug tracker and the status page[1] - it would be really helpful
| if
| > > |  you
| > > |  > check if the things you want are fixed!
| > > |  >
| > > |  > Specifically, if you want something fixed for the 7.10.2
| release:
| > > |  >
| > > |  >   - Make sure there is a ticket. It really needs to exist or
| we'll
| > > |  just forget!
| > > |  >
| > > |  >   - If your bug is critical, please explain why! We really want
| to
| > > |  > kill showstoppers ASAP, because bugs are much cheaper to fix
| early.
| > > |  If
| > > |  > that's the case we can bump the priority if it's necessary to
| make
| > > |  > things clear.
| > > |  >
| > > |  >   - Set the milestone to 7.10.2. It'll automatically appear on
| the
| > > |  status page.
| > > |  >
| > > |  > That should be it - we'll be monitoring the status page
| regularly to
| > > |  > keep track of new things. The current bug list is pretty small -
| we
| > > |  > may move some of them out, or fix several more. So just try to
| let
| > > |  us
| > > |  > know.
| > > |  >
| > > |  > As a sidenote, I'm quite happy with this release - it's fixed
| dozens
| > > |  > of tricky bugs, improved some nasty corner cases in compiler
| > > |  > performance, and overall seems like it will be high quality.
| Thanks
| > > |  to
| > > |  > everyone who submitted patches!
| > > |  >
| > > |  > I'll send out another email next week as another reminder.
| > > |  >
| > > |  > [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.10.2
| > > |  >
| > > |
| > > |
| > > |  _______________________________________________
| > > |  Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list
| > > |  Glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| > > |  http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-
| users
| >
|