(Sorry late response...)

On 27 May 2014 17:06, Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com> wrote:
just a general vote in favor of doing it within some X timeframe (even
'real soon' or 'a week would be great') would be nice.

+1 for 7.8.3 RSN :)

I am planning to import ghc-7.8 into Fedora 21 soon so having 7.8.3 available now would be much better. 

Thanks, Jens