Hello devs, I may be under-qualified for this sort of task but I’d be happy to pitch in if you find it useful.
— Best regards, Artem Pelenitsyn On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:10 PM Moritz Angermann < moritz.angerm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there! > > As it stands right now, Ben is the one who works tirelessly trying to > cut releases. Not just for the most recent version, but also for > previous versions. Most recently 8.10.2, but we have 9.0 coming up as > well. > > I know that there are some people who deeply care for personal or > professional reasons for older releases, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8, ... Some of > them have stacks of patches applied, or proprietary extensions. I'd > argue that most of those applied patches are backports of bug fixes > and rarely language features, as language features will break > compatibility (due to ghc, base, and other library versions anyway). > > I would therefore like drum up a group of people who will take care > (ideally 2+ per release) of backporting and making minor partch > releases. This does not have to go on forever, but it would take much > needed load off of Ben to focus on what ever happens in ghc HEAD. > > So what would this work actually look like? It would consist of > - going through the list of MRs and tagging those which are relevant > for backporting to a certain release. > - backport MRs where the MR does not cleanly apply. > - fixup any test-suite failures. > - agree on a date to cut/make the release. > > This is not a permanent commitment. I hope we can attract more people > to the ghc release managers. > > I'm looking forward to great many responses. And I'm sure Ben will be > able to help mentor us through cutting the first releases. I'll > volunteer to be part of the 8.6 branch maintainers for now. > > Cheers, > Moritz > > PS: There is a slightly related discussion about release cadence and > versions and how other projects deal with this in this ticket: > https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/18222 > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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