Hi all,

(This is a resend of an email I sent a short while ago. I
seem to have messed up some email headers that might trip up
some filters so I'm resending it to be safe. You only need
to read one of these if you recieved my previous email)

I'm writing to your in your role as a maintainer of one of
the GHC boot packages.

This is an update on the 9.12 release schedule. We plan to
have the release out by the end of the month (ideally on
29/11/24), with an alpha/rc every week from now until the release is
finalised:

| Date | Event |
| ----------------- | -------- |
| Nov 15 2024 | alpha 3 |
| Nov 22 2024 | release candidate |
| Nov 29 2024 | final |

Additionally, this is the final call for any submodule bumps
that may be desired. The current status of the submodules is described in this
spreadsheet, under the GHC 9.12 tab: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19WeWjXPh8Q64qoe3fjs8AswpTHk6uLBD8WG-7R97a1U/edit?gid=1512690813#gid=1512690813

If any version that is not listed in the spreadsheet is
desired, please notify me and ensure that a release is
tagged and uploaded to hackage as soon as possible. I would
like to finalise the state of submodules by the first release candidate.

This email is individually addressed to the maintainers of
all the boot libraries, as best as we could collate such a
list. If you are aware of any changes to the list of GHC
boot packages maintainers, please let us know.

We aim to have a more systematic process for such
communications with library maintainers for releases in the
future. Once we finalise such a process we will let you know.

Thanks for all your work,
Zubin.