GHC 7.8.4: call for tickets, show stoppers, and timelines - oh my!
Hi *, After some discussion with Simon & Mikolaj today, I'd like to direct you all at this: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8.4 This status page is the basic overview of what we plan on doing for 7.8.4. There are two basic components to this page: - Show stopping bugs. - Everything else, which is "nice to have". Show stoppers are listed at the top of the page, in the first paragraph. Right now, this includes: - #9439 - LLVM mangling too vigorously. - #8819 - Arithmetic failures for unregistered systems - #8690 - SpecConstr blow-up And that's all. But what's all the other stuff? That's "everything else". Aside from these tickets listed here - and any future amendments to it - all other tickets will only be considered nice-to-have. What does that mean? - It's low risk to include. - It clearly fixes the problem - It doesn't take Austin significant amounts of time to merge. For example, "Tickets marked merge with no milestone" are all nice-to-have. Similarly, all the *closed tickets* on this page may be re-opened and merged again[1], since most didn't make it to 7.8.4. Ditto with the remaining categories. OK, so that's the gist. Now I ask of you the following: - If you have a show-stopping bug with GHC 7.8.3, **you really, _positively_ need to file a bug, and get in contact with me ASAP**. Otherwise you'll be waiting for 7.10 most likely. - Again: if you have a show stopper, contact me. Very soon. - If there are bugs you *think* are showstoppers, but we didn't categorize them properly, let me know. Anything we accept as a show-stopper will delay the release of 7.8.4. Anything else can (and possibly will) be left behind. Luckily, almost all of the show stoppers have patches. Only #8819 does not, but I have asked Sergei to look into it for me if he has time today. Finally, I would please ask that users/developers do not include their own personal pet tickets under "show stoppers" without consulting me first, at least. :) If it's just nice to have, you can still pester me, of course, and I'll try to make it happen. I would like to have 7.8.4 out and done with by mid November, before we freeze the new STABLE branch for 7.10.1. That's not a hard deadline; just a timeframe I'd like to hit. Let me know if you have any questions or comments; thanks! [1] A lot of the closed tickets on this page had an improper milestone set, which is why they show up. You can mostly ignore them, I apologize. -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
would https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9284 be good candidate for
7.8.4 ?
It looks like its the only forkProcess related bug fix that wasnt merged
into 7.8.3, and impacts OS X
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Austin Seipp
Hi *,
After some discussion with Simon & Mikolaj today, I'd like to direct you all at this:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8.4
This status page is the basic overview of what we plan on doing for 7.8.4. There are two basic components to this page:
- Show stopping bugs. - Everything else, which is "nice to have".
Show stoppers are listed at the top of the page, in the first paragraph. Right now, this includes:
- #9439 - LLVM mangling too vigorously. - #8819 - Arithmetic failures for unregistered systems - #8690 - SpecConstr blow-up
And that's all. But what's all the other stuff? That's "everything else".
Aside from these tickets listed here - and any future amendments to it - all other tickets will only be considered nice-to-have. What does that mean?
- It's low risk to include. - It clearly fixes the problem - It doesn't take Austin significant amounts of time to merge.
For example, "Tickets marked merge with no milestone" are all nice-to-have. Similarly, all the *closed tickets* on this page may be re-opened and merged again[1], since most didn't make it to 7.8.4.
Ditto with the remaining categories.
OK, so that's the gist. Now I ask of you the following:
- If you have a show-stopping bug with GHC 7.8.3, **you really, _positively_ need to file a bug, and get in contact with me ASAP**. Otherwise you'll be waiting for 7.10 most likely. - Again: if you have a show stopper, contact me. Very soon. - If there are bugs you *think* are showstoppers, but we didn't categorize them properly, let me know.
Anything we accept as a show-stopper will delay the release of 7.8.4. Anything else can (and possibly will) be left behind. Luckily, almost all of the show stoppers have patches. Only #8819 does not, but I have asked Sergei to look into it for me if he has time today.
Finally, I would please ask that users/developers do not include their own personal pet tickets under "show stoppers" without consulting me first, at least. :) If it's just nice to have, you can still pester me, of course, and I'll try to make it happen.
I would like to have 7.8.4 out and done with by mid November, before we freeze the new STABLE branch for 7.10.1. That's not a hard deadline; just a timeframe I'd like to hit.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments; thanks!
[1] A lot of the closed tickets on this page had an improper milestone set, which is why they show up. You can mostly ignore them, I apologize.
-- Regards,
Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
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