GHC 7.8 release?  Ian Lynagh ian at Mon Feb 11 13:35:17 CET 2013
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:09:56AM +0800, John Lato wrote: >
What I would like to see are more patch-level bugfix releases.
I suspect > the reason we don't have more is that making a
release is a lot of work. >  So, Ian, what needs to happen to
make more frequent patch releases > feasible?  * actually making
a release takes time * I assume that you also want more patches
merged from the HEAD, rather   than just putting intermediate
releases out, in which case merging   those patches also takes
time. And most of the small fixes already get   merged, so you'd
be looking at merging bigger changes which are more   likely to
require resolving conflicts, and so take even more time  so
basically to make more releases we'd need to spend less time
doing other stuff (or for someone else to look after the
branch).  Bigger changes, and especially changes that need
altering for the stable branch, are also more likely to
introduce bugs.   More information a