Dear GHC developers and maintainers,
Now that GHC 9.14 has landed, we want to inform you about a couple of
devops related changes.
First of all, Debian 9 and Debian 10 have gone out of LTS support 2022
and 2024, respectively. We will stop testing these in our nightly
release pipelines. In addition to our testing on Debian 11 and Debian
12, we will start testing Debian 13, as well. If you have interest in us
continuing to test releases 9 and 10, please reach out to Magnus.
([email protected])
Second, we will have a maintenance downtime of our Gitlab deployment on
Friday, 2nd January 2026, 17:00 UTC. We are planning to have the
downtime last at most two hours until 19:00 UTC but if there are any
hiccups, it is possible we will have to extend this downtime, make sure
you have your checkouts of GHC and the boot libraries ready before then.
Last, but not least, we will make a couple of changes in the way new
users are handled; new users will not be able to create /any/
repositories after they join, they will have to ask an admin for
permission to create repositories. This includes forking the compiler
repository. Mind that new users can still create issues on the GHC
bugtracker. To make it easy for newcomers to contribute, I will make
according changes in the contributing guide and I will create a new
issue template for allowing to create repos. This will hopefully reduce
the number of spam and advertisement repositories created.
Please send a mail to Magnus ([email protected]) if you have any
reasonable objections to these plans.
Warm regards and happy holidays (if applicable)
Magnus
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