For the time library, I would rather the GHC team make a pull request first, and let me do the release. At the very least I want to know what's going on and what the needs are.
-- Ashley
On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 16:18 +0000, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
The GHC release team is free to make a minor (patch-level)
release of an existing released version of the library L,
embodying any changes necessary to make the library work
with the new version of GHC