9 Mar
2016
9 Mar
'16
9:46 p.m.
* The source release will be tagged and tarballs pushed to a staging area * We will soon thereafter notify the binary distribution builders and ghc-devs@ * Everyone will go to work on their binary distributions * One week after the source release is tagged the release artifacts will be pushed to downloads.haskell.org and the release publicly announced.
We hope that this will remove some of the confusion from the current process while ensuring that all platforms have the potential for support on the day of the release. We'll be trying this for 8.0.1-rc3 and the final release. If all goes well we'll continue this policy in future releases.
Sounds great, thanks!! Jens