I'm in the "to" field alone. Are you asking me? I have no opinion! But Monday 16 sounds fine to me.
S | -----Original Message----- | From: Johan Tibell [mailto:johan.tib...@gmail.com] | Sent: 09 September 2013 17:40 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones | Cc: Austin Seipp; Trevor Elliott; glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org; | ghc-d...@haskell.org | Subject: Re: 7.8 Release Update | | Is it OK if I release Cabal-1.18.0.1 on Monday if we want it to ship | with GHC 7.8? 1.18.0.1 is a tiny bugfix release on top of 1.18.0. | | On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones | <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: | > Yes I will try to review it this week. (This is the first time I've | had access to the code.) | > | > Simon | > | > | -----Original Message----- | > | From: Austin Seipp [mailto:ase...@pobox.com] | > | Sent: 09 September 2013 16:25 | > | To: Trevor Elliott | > | Cc: Austin Seipp; ghc-d...@haskell.org; glasgow-haskell- | > | us...@haskell.org; Simon Peyton-Jones | > | Subject: Re: 7.8 Release Update | > | | > | Excellent. Simon, are you privvy to this work at all? We lightly | > | talked about it last week, but I'm not sure if you've reviewed it. | Or | > | perhaps Pedro or someone else could if we have time (I seem to | > | remember he drew up the initial design points.) | > | | > | On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Trevor Elliott <tre...@galois.com> | > | wrote: | > | > Hi Austin, | > | > | > | > Iavor and I have got the data kinds syntax changes up to date with | > | master, | > | > on the data-kind-syntax branch. The -XDataKinds section of the | manual | > | has | > | > been updated to describe the new syntax. During a validate run, | there | > | were | > | > some problems building haddock, so I'm going to look into that | > | tonight. | > | > | > | > There are tests for the data kind syntax in the test suite, | currently | > | on the | > | > data-kind-syntax branch. | > | > | > | > Other than the haddock fix, I think that we're ready to go. | > | > | > | > Thanks! | > | > | > | > --trevor | > | > | > | > | > | > On Sun 08 Sep 2013 04:27:33 PM PDT, Austin Seipp 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 | > _______________________________________________ | > ghc-devs mailing list | > ghc-d...@haskell.org | > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
