[ghc-steering-committee] GHC20xx review; GHC2022 yes or no?

[Richard Eisenberg]

What makes you say 9.2 has been released? I don't think it has been. https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download.html does not list it, for example.

Otherwise, I agree on holding off.

Thanks for raising this!
Richard

> On Oct 5, 2021, at 3:50 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Committee,
> 
> when we defined the process for GHC20xx, as written in 
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0372-ghc-extensions.rst
> we wrote
> 
>   Likely, the first iteration of this process will be vastly different
>   from the following ones: The first one is expected to add a large
>   number of uncontroversial extensions; so the next iteration will
>   likely only make a smaller, but more controversial change.
> 
>   Therefore, this proposal does not commit to a fixed cadence.
>   Instead, 6 months after the first release of a version of GHC that
>   supports a GHC20xx set, we evaluate the outcome, the process, and
>   the perceived need of a next release. At that time we will refine
>   the processes, if needed, and set a cadence.
> 
> The first version of GHC that supported GHC20xx is 9.2, released in March.
> So we should do this evaluation now.
> 
> My impression is that 9.2 hasn’t reached the masses yet:
> NixOS stable doesn’t even have it, and the default is at 8.10. 
> Stackage LTS is at 8.10, and nightly at 9.0
> Debian is at 8.8.
> 
> So it seems premature to try to evaluate its impact, and what, if
> anything, we should do differently for a hypothetical GHC2022.
> 
> So I suggest we postpone this review for another half year or so.
> 
> Also, I don’t see why GHC2022 would be different than GHC2021. Not that
> much has changed about GHC and its set of “should-be-default”
> extensions since last year, has it?
> 
> So I suggest we don’t work on defining GHC2022, and the next update
> will be GHC2023 (or later).
> 
> 
> What do you think,
> Joachim 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Joachim Breitner
>  mail at joachim-breitner.de
>  http://www.joachim-breitner.de/
> 
> 
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