Milestones page is missing or has inaccurate dates

[Brandon Allbery]

I think 9.2.4 got released early because of
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21708, and the milestone
needs to be updated.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 7:57 AM George Colpitts
<george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ben
>
> Thanks for the very quick response which addresses my concerns ! However I'm confused by
>
> my colleague Zubin will be working on 9.2.4 next week, hopefully for
>    release the following week
>
> Zubin sent mail on July 28th with a subject line of  "[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.2.4 released". I'm running it
>
>  $ ghc --version
> The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 9.2.4
>
> Thanks again
> George
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 8:51 PM Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:
>>
>> George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > The Milestones page <https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/milestones> is
>> > missing many dates or has inaccurate dates:
>> >
>> >    - Most milestones don't have any associated completion date.
>> >    - As far as I know 9.4.2 and 9.2.4 are released but the milestones pages
>> >    doesn't seem to show that.
>> >
>> > Can the page be updated so we have an idea of what is coming when?
>> >
>> > There has been a lot of great work done and I know a lot is being worked
>> > on. It would be great if the milestones page could be updated to better
>> > reflect that.
>> >
>> I have updated the dates of 9.4.2, 9.4.3, 9.2.4, and 9.6.1. In short,
>>
>>  * 9.6.1 is scheduled for some time in January 2023; we plan to fork for
>>    this release next month
>>
>>  * I am actively working on backports for 9.4.3 as we speak
>>
>>  * my colleague Zubin will be working on 9.2.4 next week, hopefully for
>>    release the following week
>>
>>  * 9.4.2 was released in late August
>>
>> There are quite a few other milestones which lack dates; for the most
>> part these are releases which don't have a formal timeline yet.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>  - Ben
>
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