A modest proposal (re the Platform)

[Sven Panne]

Just a quick +1 for including GHC 7.8 in the next HP release.
Regarding compiler features, shipping GHC 7.6.3 again would mean that
the HP is still roughly at September 2012 (the first release of GHC
7.6.x). Furthermore, I don't fully buy into the argument that we
should wait for 7.8 to stabilize: Power users will use something near
HEAD, anyway, almost all other users will probably use the HP.