GHC 7.8.3 release

[Michael Snoyman]

I'm building the GHC-7.8 branch now, and will then kick off a Stackage
build. That should give a good indication if there are regressions.


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> After a long week, I've finally gotten a little time to reply to
> emails, and I mainly have one question I'd like to ask.
>
> First, please direct your attention to this:
>
>
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&status=merge&status=patch&milestone=7.8.3&group=resolution&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=component&col=version&order=priority
>
> This is the 7.8.3 milestone, but it only considers things that are:
>
>  - 1) Fixed
>  - 2) Going to be merged
>  - 3) Are a patch to be still merged.
>
> That is, it is a solid representation of the difference between 7.8.2
> and the 7.8 branch tip.
>
> The question is: when should we do the release? There are several bugs
> there that seem quite problematic for users - #9045, #7097, #9001,
> #8768 and #9078 in particular.
>
> If these bugs are really problematic (and I sort of feel they are)
> then the release can happen soon. I can do it within a week from now,
> and we could punt more to a 7.8.4 release.
>
> I ask this because my time to dedicate to GHC is a bit thin right now,
> so you must help me decide what's important! So please let me know -
> just a general vote in favor of doing it within some X timeframe (even
> 'real soon' or 'a week would be great') would be nice.
>
> PS: I apologize for the lack of status updates and brief email - my
> time for GHC has been in very short order the past two weeks in
> particular, and I've finally just returned to a computer (not mine)
> for right now to ask this.
>
> PPS: This might also impact the 7.10 schedule, but last Simon and I
> talked, we thought perhaps shooting for ICFP this time (and actually
> hitting it) was a good plan. So I'd estimate on that a 7.8.4 might
> happen a few months from now, after summer.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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