Call for GHC Maintainers

[Artem Pelenitsyn]

Hello devs,

I may be under-qualified for this sort of task but I’d be happy to pitch in
if you find it useful.

—
Best regards,
Artem Pelenitsyn

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:10 PM Moritz Angermann <
moritz.angermann at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> As it stands right now, Ben is the one who works tirelessly trying to
> cut releases. Not just for the most recent version, but also for
> previous versions. Most recently 8.10.2, but we have 9.0 coming up as
> well.
>
> I know that there are some people who deeply care for personal or
> professional reasons for older releases, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8, ... Some of
> them have stacks of patches applied, or proprietary extensions. I'd
> argue that most of those applied patches are backports of bug fixes
> and rarely language features, as language features will break
> compatibility (due to ghc, base, and other library versions anyway).
>
> I would therefore like drum up a group of people who will take care
> (ideally 2+ per release) of backporting and making minor partch
> releases. This does not have to go on forever, but it would take much
> needed load off of Ben to focus on what ever happens in ghc HEAD.
>
> So what would this work actually look like? It would consist of
> - going through the list of MRs and tagging those which are relevant
> for backporting to a certain release.
> - backport MRs where the MR does not cleanly apply.
> - fixup any test-suite failures.
> - agree on a date to cut/make the release.
>
> This is not a permanent commitment. I hope we can attract more people
> to the ghc release managers.
>
> I'm looking forward to great many responses. And I'm sure Ben will be
> able to help mentor us through cutting the first releases. I'll
> volunteer to be part of the 8.6 branch maintainers for now.
>
> Cheers,
>  Moritz
>
> PS: There is a slightly related discussion about release cadence and
> versions and how other projects deal with this in this ticket:
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/18222
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