On 27/05/14 09:06, Austin Seipp wrote: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.
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.
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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