Release dates

[Duncan Coutts]

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 14:11 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Duncan,
> 
> Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 1:58:33 PM, you wrote:
> > Releases:
> >       * 2009.2.0, Monday  4th May 
> >       * 2009.2.1, Monday  1st June  (4 weeks after .0) 
> >       * 2009.2.2, Monday 13th July  (6 weeks after .1)
> 
> are you sure that 1) releasers will work due the Summer,
> 2) users are interested to see new version just at the mid-Summer ?

It's a fair point but I don't think it's too much of a problem if some
people are away and an installer for one platform releases late. Ideally
we should have several people who can generate releases. Automation!

> i propose to move 2.2 date to Sep 1 or so

That's during ICFP and is getting rather close to a new GHC release.

Duncan