Oh, and of course, Edsko and Luite have made the final changes to their hooks patch, and as far as I can tell, all our potential users are quite happy! I've already given them an exception as well. I expect I will merge it in the next day or two, after another code review.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Austin Seipp <aus...@well-typed.com> wrote: > Friends, > > The time is here! We'll be closing off new features this week. There > are some exceptions that have been made already: > > * Geoffrey will get SIMD/Template Haskell in this week, as he's been > a little busy. But it's very close. > * I believe Trevor and Iavor would still like to get Kinds without > Data in the release, but Simon is currently on leave for the next few > days, so we'll see once he gets back to look into it. > > There are some other lingering potential features that might make it > (of various sizes,) but it's not clear they will be done in time. > We'll be going on a case-by-case basis as I said. Do you have a > feature you'd like to see make it in? Did you write a patch for some > super cool feature? Please email me (either on list, or off-list) and > we can discuss it. > > Again, today isn't a hard-line requirement, but at this point, I > *have* to be aware of what you're doing, for you to have any chance of > making the merge window. Several people have already done this, and > we're discussing it. > > If you have a patch, but you're in doubt if it is too big, just email > me. Or get ahold of me on IRC (thoughtpolice.) You can't really waste > my time on this note. > > And of course, please continue to liberally report bugs (or patches!) > - it's much better if we find them as early as possible. > > > On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Austin Seipp <ase...@pobox.com> wrote: >> Friends, >> >> After talking with SPJ, we've decided that the cutoff date for the 7.8 >> feature window will essentially start on Monday, the 16th. This is the >> beginning of the week before ICFP. This is a week from tomorrow. >> >> Afterwords, I suspect we will cut the 7.8 branch in early October (my >> notes tentatively say Oct. 9th.) This will give us a few weeks of >> straight bugfixing. >> >> Don't let this scare you too much. We're doing this at the beginning >> of the week so we have time to sort things out. Bug fixes will of >> course continuously be welcome until the 7.8 branch. >> >> However, for pending features, I'd like a status update. Everyone >> mentioned below, please reply to clarify anything: >> >> * Iavor Diatchki and SPJ are working together on the type-nats-simple >> branch. I believe this will hopefully land in time. Iavor, SPJ - can >> you comment here? >> >> * Trevor and Iavor are also working on kinds without data. Any word here? >> >> * Geoffrey is currently moving, but he says the SIMD work and new >> template-haskell work will land by the end of this week, which is >> great. >> >> * Patrick Palka has a few loose ends to tie off for the parallel >> compilation driver. I talked to him today, and after Andreas committed >> his bugfix to base, I believe everything is now working, with the >> deadlocks sorted out. Patrick, can you confirm? We can get this merged >> ASAP if so. >> >> * Pedro and Richard - what's the story on propositional equality, >> etc? This is mentioned on the status page[1] but I'm not sure what >> else needs to be done. I know Pedro committed the work to make manual >> Typeable instances an error, which is great. >> >> * Luite and Edsko will be talking about some final changes to the >> hooks patch, and afterwords it can hopefully be integrated. I'll keep >> up with them this week. >> >> * I am currently working on integrating the Applicative-Monad >> warning, but this requires some upstream patches for the build to >> work. However, we still need to sync several upstream libraries, and >> this will be happening over the next few weeks. Therefore, I may >> commit it, and incrementally fix validation errors as time goes on and >> me and Herbert sync upstreams. >> >> IMO, most of these look to be in good shape, I think. >> >> If you *do not think you'll make it by the 16th*, please let me know. >> We can possibly still land it the week of the 16th, provided I know >> ASAP. But we really really need to know, because many people will be >> gone the following week. >> >> In the following few days, I'm hoping going to finish off everything I >> can in the patch queue, and fix my remaining bugs, and investigate >> Dynamic GHCi in particular. >> >> Again, if you don't think you can make it on the 16th, but still >> within the week, we can of discuss it. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671 > > > > -- > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ -- Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
