On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Ben Gamari
I just posted a pair of posts on the GHC blog [1,2] laying out some thoughts on the GHC release cycle timing [1] and how this relates to the in-progress Jenkins build infrastructure [2]. When you have a some time feel free to give them a read and comment (either here or on the Reddit thread [3]).
This release was actually a bit unusual for recent releases, in that a significant delay did *not* come from working around a major breaking behavior change in a Tier 1 platform; recent examples being macOS's load commands limit and Ubuntu defaulting to position-independent executables. I think this might be relevant to the question of slipping extra stuff into releases: it's become so common to have extra time courtesy of Tier 1 platforms breaking things on us that slipping extra stuff in is now expected. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net