Re: GHC 7.8.3 release

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2014 12:28 PM, George Colpitts wrote:

+1

Stability is very important.

Also, do we have an ETA for when we will have an improved infrastructure for automated builds and the associated tests. I think this would help a lot with stability and shorten the time to the next release.

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Simon Marlow mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com> wrote:

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

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.

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.

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

Hi George: There are continuous builds of GHC HEAD on several platforms and architectures: http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/builders/ There are still some bugs to work out there for sure (particularly mine on SmartOS), but a lot of progress has been made. The most critical gap is the lack of Windows and OS X builders since they are Tier 1 platforms for GHC. If you have Windows or OS X machines available please consider offering a builder: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Builder Best, Alain -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEbBAEBAgAGBQJTikGBAAoJEP0rIXJNjNSA/KsH+I7mug5uqHDr5YzZJSPl0awS 1PudhQqnBLf8Op/IQuPR7lYZEsXNTUb+VU1vV0vEo8+nRAaueVlhffsXYe7YRRHF wQqA1WsmIfwwDsU2DkeVOhKMht9iB1eKC3vvsTEvZE8GJKvQZDTIeas5QtUki/i0 yuTPrRMZjf6IubsxeY90mlDCgpRMjRIWcRPm9fWj7c0wdzUNmMR0IPshMiXjZbbM US9hkoyuXUyYZrtn19vbPGNTss3gZJEqengyDNDyVNrEd4QXC8Us/dqbnbjrKPI3 8D9BbVTOyELJ44mFXmlcXT8DSfIYCAv/sS81sXNm4lQX3jhTOyx2hNa3jvqIrQ== =sZkd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----