GHC 8.2.1 status

[Ben Gamari]

Hello everyone,

It has been a bit over a week since the last update regarding 8.2.1. At
the moment we are on the final stretch leading up cutting the branch.
Over the last week I have been cleaning up a variety of odds and ends
around the tree, bumping core libraries, merging some last patches,
smoke testing, and putting the final touches on the Typeable branch
which will be merged shortly.

However, during testing against Hackage I found a regression (#13255)
due to the recent join-points merge that needs to be addressed before we
can consider cutting a release candidate. This will likely be resolved
soon, which should allow us to release a source release by mid-to-late
next week (assuming no further regressions are found).

Cheers,

- Ben


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GHC 8.2.1 status

[Ben Gamari]

Hello everyone,

Here is your periodic release update. After a number of false-starts,
the tree is finally approaching a releasable state. Last week I cut
the ghc-8.2 branch and things have been stabilizing ever since. At this
point we are waiting on only a couple more fixes before the rc1 source
release can be cut,

 * #13474: To be addressed by Richard soon
 * #13410: To be addressed by Simon PJ shortly
 * #1: To be addressed by Ben shortly
 * #13433: Simon Marow has a fix

There are also a few issues that we have deemed not to block -rc1, but
which must be addressed prior to the final release,

 * #13220: David will verify that 
 * #13233: Ben will do a bit more digging, Simon PJ will think about it

With luck we will be able to finish the -rc1 blockers in the next couple
of days, allowing us to cut a source release by Tuesday or Wednesday.

Cheers,

 - Your friendly release manager


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Re: GHC 8.2.1 status

[George Colpitts]

Thanks Ben. When you have a chance it would be good to update the status
page  wrt what we
will be getting, specifically will Backpack be in 8.2.1

Cheers
George

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:42 PM Ben Gamari  wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Here is your periodic release update. After a number of false-starts,
> the tree is finally approaching a releasable state. Last week I cut
> the ghc-8.2 branch and things have been stabilizing ever since. At this
> point we are waiting on only a couple more fixes before the rc1 source
> release can be cut,
>
>  * #13474: To be addressed by Richard soon
>  * #13410: To be addressed by Simon PJ shortly
>  * #1: To be addressed by Ben shortly
>  * #13433: Simon Marow has a fix
>
> There are also a few issues that we have deemed not to block -rc1, but
> which must be addressed prior to the final release,
>
>  * #13220: David will verify that
>  * #13233: Ben will do a bit more digging, Simon PJ will think about it
>
> With luck we will be able to finish the -rc1 blockers in the next couple
> of days, allowing us to cut a source release by Tuesday or Wednesday.
>
> Cheers,
>
>  - Your friendly release manager
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Re: GHC 8.2.1 status

[Ben Gamari]

George Colpitts  writes:

> Thanks Ben. When you have a chance it would be good to update the status
> page  wrt what we
> will be getting, specifically will Backpack be in 8.2.1
>
Hi George,

I just reviewed the status page and cleaned a few things up. Otherwise it looks 
up to date.

Regarding Backpack, all of the major pieces are currently in the tree
and will be present in 8.2. It would be great if users could play these
bits in -rc1; there has been a steady stream of fixes from Edward in the
past weeks, so there is no doubt more work to do here and it would be
great to find issues before the final release if possible.

Edward: Do you think you could add some details to the Backpack entry on
the status page?

Cheers,

- Ben


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Re: GHC 8.2.1 status

[Edward Z. Yang]

I updated the wiki page!

Excerpts from Ben Gamari's message of 2017-03-27 12:00:19 -0400:
> George Colpitts  writes:
> 
> > Thanks Ben. When you have a chance it would be good to update the status
> > page  wrt what we
> > will be getting, specifically will Backpack be in 8.2.1
> >
> Hi George,
> 
> I just reviewed the status page and cleaned a few things up. Otherwise it 
> looks up to date.
> 
> Regarding Backpack, all of the major pieces are currently in the tree
> and will be present in 8.2. It would be great if users could play these
> bits in -rc1; there has been a steady stream of fixes from Edward in the
> past weeks, so there is no doubt more work to do here and it would be
> great to find issues before the final release if possible.
> 
> Edward: Do you think you could add some details to the Backpack entry on
> the status page?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben
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