tl;dr: The march towards 8.0.1 continues. Release candidate 2 will likely
be cut late next week. If you have a ticket which you'd like to
see addressed but suspect we aren't working on then please say so.
Dear Ben, I think this email has a lot of useful info for *users* too, not just ghc devs.
Might it not be a good idea to keep glasgow-haskell-users in the loop for future announcements of this sort?