Sorry for the latency, I'm currently working through a few weeks of
email backlog.


Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com> writes:

> thats the only explanation of why i see soooo many test suite failues of a
> GHC RELEASE when i do make test ...
>
It's hard to comment without knowing more about what specific failures
you are seeing.

> why do we not have a full ./validate run on each tier one platform as part
> of some official release check list?
>
We do. All of the Tier 1 platforms have go through full validation. You
can see this yourself by looking at .circleci/config.yml.

> DO WE HAVE a checklist for releases? if not, we should, this shouldn't be
> happening

Yes, we do. It is here [1].

Cheers,

- Ben


[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/MakingReleases