[GHC DevOps Group] Making GHC's fast release cadence work

[Henning Thielemann]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, John Ericson wrote:

> Yeah there are many interlocking issues here. I've been thinking about 
> writing one of those ecosystem proposals about this. Here's some observations 
> about the status quo for now.
>
> - Frequent releases are a really nice for feature for the community. I know 
> I, for one, would be less motivated to work on GHC if it would take a year in 
> some case for my contributions to trickle back to my day job. Rust releases 
> every 6 *weeks*. I see no reason why we shouldn't aim for that.

In the past we had nightly builds. They are not quite releases but if 
provided as, say, Debian packages it would be easy to install and upgrade 
them.