
Hi everyone, The time is again upon us to start thinking about release planning for the next major release: GHC 8.12. In keeping with our 6-month release schedule, I propose the following schedule: * Mid-June 2020: Aim to have all major features in the tree * Late-June 2020: Cut the ghc-8.12 branch * June - August 2020: 3 alpha releases * 1 September 2020: beta release * 25 September 2020: Final 8.12.1 release So, if you have any major features which you would like to merge for 8.12, now is the time to start planning how to wrap them up in the next month or so. As always, do let me know if you think this may be problematic and we can discuss options. Cheers, - Ben

Hello Ben,
Matthías Páll and I are working on an implementation of QualifiedDo [1]
with the aim to get it merged on time. We are trying to get a small pull
request submitted in the first week of June.
Cheers,
Facundo
[1] https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/216
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 3:13 PM Ben Gamari
Hi everyone,
The time is again upon us to start thinking about release planning for the next major release: GHC 8.12. In keeping with our 6-month release schedule, I propose the following schedule:
* Mid-June 2020: Aim to have all major features in the tree * Late-June 2020: Cut the ghc-8.12 branch * June - August 2020: 3 alpha releases * 1 September 2020: beta release * 25 September 2020: Final 8.12.1 release
So, if you have any major features which you would like to merge for 8.12, now is the time to start planning how to wrap them up in the next month or so. As always, do let me know if you think this may be problematic and we can discuss options.
Cheers,
- Ben
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Domínguez, Facundo
Hello Ben,
Matthías Páll and I are working on an implementation of QualifiedDo [1] with the aim to get it merged on time. We are trying to get a small pull request submitted in the first week of June.
Thanks for the heads-up, Facundo! I've added this to the milestone. Cheers, - Ben

Patches I would like merged:
* Short ByteString Patch - seems stalled again
* My patches to allow compacting a ModIface - Need to put these up for review
* Make Q (TExp a) a newtype (Proposal 195
-https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/195) - Not yet
written but will not be a big effort
Cheers,
Matt
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 8:48 PM Ben Gamari
Domínguez, Facundo
writes: Hello Ben,
Matthías Páll and I are working on an implementation of QualifiedDo [1] with the aim to get it merged on time. We are trying to get a small pull request submitted in the first week of June.
Thanks for the heads-up, Facundo! I've added this to the milestone.
Cheers,
- Ben _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Matthew Pickering
Patches I would like merged:
* Short ByteString Patch - seems stalled again
Indeed I think dxld was going to investigate the unregisterised regression but frankly I'm happy enough just to merge as-is. I strongly suspect that the issue is just a change in GC timing.
* My patches to allow compacting a ModIface - Need to put these up for review * Make Q (TExp a) a newtype (Proposal 195 -https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/195) - Not yet written but will not be a big effort
Thanks Matt! Added to the status page [1]. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/status/ghc-8.12.1

I have a few aarch64 linker patches I'll need to open MRs for. They
are mostly 5-10
line changes, but will give us a working linker :-)
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:13 AM Ben Gamari
Hi everyone,
The time is again upon us to start thinking about release planning for the next major release: GHC 8.12. In keeping with our 6-month release schedule, I propose the following schedule:
* Mid-June 2020: Aim to have all major features in the tree * Late-June 2020: Cut the ghc-8.12 branch * June - August 2020: 3 alpha releases * 1 September 2020: beta release * 25 September 2020: Final 8.12.1 release
So, if you have any major features which you would like to merge for 8.12, now is the time to start planning how to wrap them up in the next month or so. As always, do let me know if you think this may be problematic and we can discuss options.
Cheers,
- Ben
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Hi Ben, ghc-bignum (!2231) is ready to be merged for 8.12. We are just waiting for bytestring/text maintainers to merge 2 simple patches. Thanks, Sylvain On 05/05/2020 20:12, Ben Gamari wrote:
Hi everyone,
The time is again upon us to start thinking about release planning for the next major release: GHC 8.12. In keeping with our 6-month release schedule, I propose the following schedule:
* Mid-June 2020: Aim to have all major features in the tree * Late-June 2020: Cut the ghc-8.12 branch * June - August 2020: 3 alpha releases * 1 September 2020: beta release * 25 September 2020: Final 8.12.1 release
So, if you have any major features which you would like to merge for 8.12, now is the time to start planning how to wrap them up in the next month or so. As always, do let me know if you think this may be problematic and we can discuss options.
Cheers,
- Ben
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In that case I should perhaps try to get in !1102, which makes all the fixed-sized prim types always available, in too? I'm fine either way, but figure it's nice for any CPP to deal with the fixed and bignum numeric representation changing across a single release, and the schedule gives us time to patch important packages that need it between mid-June and the end of September. Cheers, John On 5/23/20 6:49 AM, Sylvain Henry wrote:
Hi Ben,
ghc-bignum (!2231) is ready to be merged for 8.12. We are just waiting for bytestring/text maintainers to merge 2 simple patches.
Thanks, Sylvain
On 05/05/2020 20:12, Ben Gamari wrote:
Hi everyone,
The time is again upon us to start thinking about release planning for the next major release: GHC 8.12. In keeping with our 6-month release schedule, I propose the following schedule:
* Mid-June 2020: Aim to have all major features in the tree * Late-June 2020: Cut the ghc-8.12 branch * June - August 2020: 3 alpha releases * 1 September 2020: beta release * 25 September 2020: Final 8.12.1 release
So, if you have any major features which you would like to merge for 8.12, now is the time to start planning how to wrap them up in the next month or so. As always, do let me know if you think this may be problematic and we can discuss options.
Cheers,
- Ben
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participants (6)
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Ben Gamari
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Domínguez, Facundo
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John Ericson
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Matthew Pickering
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Moritz Angermann
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Sylvain Henry