Ben Gamari
Hello GHCers,
Thanks to the work of darchon the last blocker for the 8.0.2 release (#12479) has nearly been resolved. After the fix has been merged I'll be doing some further testing of the ghc-8.0 branch and cut a source tarball for 8.0.2-rc1 later this week.
If you intend on offering a binary release for 8.0.2 it would be great if you could plan on testing the tarball promptly so we can cut 8.0.2 and move on to planning for 8.2.1.
Thanks for your help and patience!
Hello everyone! Well, here we are, another month and another handful of bugs later but at long last I have good news to report: I just finished a set of builds on our tier 1 platforms and it seems that things are finally in reasonably good shape. I put the finishing touches on the tree today and will try to cut a source tarball for 8.0.2-rc1 tomorrow. Here's to hoping that things go more smoothly from here on out. As usual, I'd like to plan on a seven-day window between the source release and final release announcement. However, let me know if this will be too onerous and we can discuss other options. Cheers, - Ben