Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

[Simon Peyton Jones]

As for GHC 7.8.2 - Where is the plan for 7.8.2 documented? It is barely mentioned in the GHC mailing list, and no mention in the GHC trac wiki, and the issues milestone has scant info.
We have not begun to think about when to release 7.8.2.  It’ll depend on what issues show up in 7.8.1 and how urgent they seem to be.  We have delayed 7.8.1 for ages, and given masses of warning about the release, so I’d be sad if there are known, show-stopping bugs in it that we already know about.  If there really really really are, maybe we should delay 7.8.1 further.  But that process can go on indefinitely (as we have already seen), so I’m pretty reluctant.

But I’d certainly listen to a consensus view from the HP team. You represent our customers.

Simon

From: Libraries [mailto:libraries-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Mark Lentczner
Sent: 30 March 2014 23:44
To: haskell-platform at projects.haskell.org; Haskell Libraries
Subject: Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

happy bumped to 1.19.3
alex bumped to 3.1.3
haddock bumped to 2.14.1
- but question about tying to GHC release still open: The concern is since GHC ships with it's doc built with the haddock executable it ships, will we have problems building the rest of the docs with a later haddock -- and having all the cross references work?

As for GHC 7.8.2 - Where is the plan for 7.8.2 documented? It is barely mentioned in the GHC mailing list, and no mention in the GHC trac wiki, and the issues milestone has scant info.

I'm very reluctant to hold out for an unknown GHC release. Unless we have good reason to think that GHC 7.8.1 is a bad release and will leave scads of people with broken build systems.... I'd like to continue to plan on releasing HP in mid May (so on schedule for 2014.2.0.0). As such, unless the turn of 7.8.2 comes within a week or two of 7.8.1 - let's stick with 7.8.1.

Finally - note that part of my big push to totally re-write the Haskell Platform is so that we can all feel more confident turning a version more quickly if we need. If 7.8.2 comes out this Summer, and we think it is an important enough improvement - we can turn HP too.

- Mark

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