+1
Stability is very important.
Also, do we have an ETA for when we will have an improved infrastructure
for automated builds and the associated tests. I think this would help a
lot with stability and shorten the time to the next release.
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Simon Marlow
On 27/05/14 09:06, Austin Seipp wrote:
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.
FWIW, I think doing 7.10 in October is way too soon. Major releases create a large distributed effort for package maintainers and users, and there are other knock-on effects, so we shouldn't do them too often. A lot of our users want stability, while many of them also want progress, and 12 months between major releases is the compromise we settled on.
The last major release slipped for various reasons, but I don't believe that means we should try to get back on track by having a short time between 7.8 and 7.10. 7.8 will be out of maintenance when it has only just made it into a platform release.
Anyway, that's my opinion. Of course if everyone says they don't mind a 7.10 in October then I withdraw my objection :-)
(as a data point, upgrading to 7.8 at work cost me three weeks, but we're probably a special case)
Cheers, Simon
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