GHC Weekly News - 2015/01/19

thoughtpolice - 2015-01-19

Hi *,

It’s time for some more GHC news! The GHC 7.10 release is closing in, which has been the primary place we’re focusing our attention. In particular, we’re hoping RC2 will be Real Soon Now.

Some notes from the past GHC HQ meetings this week:

  • GHC 7.10 is still rolling along smoothly, and it’s expected that RC2 will be cut this Friday, January 23rd. Austin sent out an email about this to ghc-devs, so we can hopefully get all the necessary fixes in.

  • Our status page for GHC 7.10 lists all the current bullet points and tickets we hope to address: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.10.1

  • Currently, GHC HQ isn’t planning on focusing many cycles on any GHC 7.10 tickets that aren’t highest priority. We’re otherwise going to fix things as we see fit, at our leisure - but a highest priority bug is a showstopper for us. This means if you have something you consider a showstopper for the next release, you should bump the priority on the ticket and yell at us!

  • We otherwise think everything looks pretty smooth for 7.10.1 RC2 - our libraries are updated, and most of the currently queued patches (with a few minor exceptions) are done and merged.

Some notes from the mailing list include:

Closed tickets the past few weeks include: #9966, #9904, #9969, #9972, #9934, #9967, #9875, #9900, #9973, #9890, #5821, #9984, #9997, #9998, #9971, #10000, #10002, #9243, #9889, #9384, #8624, #9922, #9878, #9999, #9957, #7298, and #9836.