[GHC-Releases] GHC 9.10 release schedule and core library status

[Julian Ospald]

Hi,

Have all core/boot library maintainers been notified to join that mailing list? Where is that information? I don't see it.

The only reason I got wind of this is because Hécate CCed the library ML as well.

I remain unconvinced that this is a good way of coordinating releases across 20+ maintainers.

Information that is necessary:

- what versions do YOU need?
- what versions do maintainers want to see in the next GHC release?
- do maintainers want a "backport" of a version bump to an older GHC branch?
- relationships between core libraries (that is the case for filepath)
- deadline

This could possibly be expressed in a shared spreadsheet, so that everyone understands the current status without going through mailing lists they're not subscribed to or issue trackers with 10+ posts.

Thanks,
Julian

On February 5, 2024 2:28:16 PM UTC, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>Julian Ospald <hasufell at posteo.de> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm unsure what the process here is. Do you expect every boot library 
>> maintainer to follow GHC issue tracker and comment there? Or to open a 
>> PR against ghc repo? I definitely won't do the latter as an unpaid 
>> volunteer (I don't want to deal with GHC MRs and CI).
>>
>We created the `ghc-releases` mailing list for the purpose of release
>coordination. In the past I have also frequently created tracking
>tickets in submodules' upstream repositories. I have not done that this
>time as we have this mailing list but I would be happy to do so if this
>would be preferable.
>
>> For 'filepath' and 'unix' (and 'os-string', which is to become a boot 
>> package) I'd prefer if you open issues on each issue tracker. If that is 
>> too cumbersome, please link me to the place where I'm supposed to 
>> comment and give me a deadline.
>>
>Sure, I will create a pair of tracking tickets. The proposed deadline is
>before the second week in March.
>
>Cheers,
>
>- Ben
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-releases/attachments/20240207/3bbe4085/attachment-0001.html>