It's that time again.... time to get cooking on another tasty Haskell Platform release!<div><br></div><div>Here's my updated timeline for 2012.4.0.0, target: <font color="#cc0000"><b>November 12th, 2012</b></font></div>
<div><ul><li><font color="#cc0000"><b>August 20th, 2012</b></font> - Call for proposals for additions and changes</li><li><b><font color="#cc0000">September 17th, 2012</font></b> - Call for proposals ends (no more proposals considered)</li>
<li><b><font color="#cc0000">October 1st, 2012</font></b> - Proposals decided, Initial version list</li><li><b><font color="#cc0000">October 15th, 2012</font></b> - First candidates</li><li><b><font color="#cc0000">October 29th, 2012</font></b> - Open issues resolved, Second candidates</li>
<li><b><font color="#cc0000">November 5th, 2012</font></b> - Final release candidates</li></ul><b>If you are maintainer of a library in the platform:</b> Please start thinking about which version of your library should be in the release. If it will require coordination with versions of other libraries in the platform, now is the time to start coordinating. In mid-september, we will need to hear from the maintainers which version should be included: <i>I will not automatically bump to the latest version on Hackage for this release.</i></div>
<div><i><br></i></div><div><b>If you are a maintainer of a library that you'd like to be in the platform:</b> Now is the time to get a clean version on Hackage, and then put together a proposal for the haskell-platform list. Please see the process for <a href="http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/AddingPackages" target="_blank">Adding Packages</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>If you are part of the reviewing process:</b> Traditionally, proposals have been accompanied by lengthly discussions, often resulting in deep API design confabs. As we are approaching a release, I'd like to ask all to consider making this round more succinct if at all possible. In particular, it would be great if proposals were keyed to specific revisions of a library to be considered. If consensus is that something needs to be changed before inclusion - it would be best if maintainers took that input into account, turned another library version and placed that up for consideration. Please note the schedule: I'm going to hold October 1st firm.</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>If you are GHC Central: </b>I couldn't find a timeline for 7.6. Will that have hit a stable release by October 1st, or should we be planning on shipping 7.4.2 (which I think would be fine.)</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>If you are a packager or builder of HP releases: </b>Please review the <a href="http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/report/3">trac ticket list</a>. Please edit tickets to reflect reality: Close things that are fixed or won't ever be done. Edit descriptions with more information if you have it. But most importantly, please assign milestones correctly: If you are going to fix something this time - put it in the 2012.4.0.0 milestone. If it is for the future, put it in Blue Sky.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Mark "mzero" Lentczner, Chef de la Release</div><div><br></div>