8.12 plans

Moritz Angermann moritz.angermann at gmail.com
Fri May 22 14:21:32 UTC 2020


I have a few aarch64 linker patches I'll need to open MRs for. They
are mostly 5-10
line changes, but will give us a working linker :-)

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:13 AM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> The time is again upon us to start thinking about release planning for
> the next major release: GHC 8.12. In keeping with our 6-month release
> schedule, I propose the following schedule:
>
>  * Mid-June 2020: Aim to have all major features in the tree
>  * Late-June 2020: Cut the ghc-8.12 branch
>  * June - August 2020: 3 alpha releases
>  * 1 September 2020: beta release
>  * 25 September 2020: Final 8.12.1 release
>
> So, if you have any major features which you would like to merge for
> 8.12, now is the time to start planning how to wrap them up in the next
> month or so. As always, do let me know if you think this may be
> problematic and we can discuss options.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
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