8.0 release

[Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) @ Pike (-) developers forum]

> I was suggested that it might be a good idea to do a test release of
> 8.0. I think that’s a pretty good idea. I was wondering if anyone
> had any thoughts about who might be expected to prepare that
> release. I’m happy to help but don’t want to automatically assume
> I’d be the one.

Sounds like a good idea.

Another issue that just came up is that Pike apparently no longer has
a maintainer at Gentoo. From /usr/portage/profile/package.mask:

| # Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> (19 Mar 2015)
| # Multiple pending bugs for a long time, unmaintained. Switch to
| # pike-overlay instead as it's better maintained there (#422483).
| # Removal in a month.
| dev-lang/pike