On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Sven Panne <svenpanne@gmail.com> wrote:
To me the fundamental question which should be answered before any detail question is: Should we go on and continuously break minor things (i.e. basically give up any stability guarantees) or should we collect a bunch of changes first (leaving vital things untouched for that time) and release all those changes together, in longer intervals? That's IMHO a tough question which we somehow avoided to answer up to now. I would like to see a broader discussion like this first, both approaches have their pros and cons, and whatever we do, there should be some kind of consensus behind it.

I recall suggesting something along the lines of stable vs. research ghc releases a few months back. This seems like it would fit in fairly well; the problem is getting buy-in from certain parts of the ecosystem that seem to prefer to build production-oriented packages from research/"unstable" releases.

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