GHC Weekly News - 2015/02/10

thoughtpolice - 2015-02-10

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Welcome! This is the first GHC Weekly news of February 2015. You might be wondering what happened to the last one. Well, your editor was just in New York for the past week attending Compose Conference, making friends and talking a lot about Haskell (luckily we missed a snow storm that may have messed it up quite badly!)

The conference was great. I got to have some interesting discussions about GHC and Haskell with many friendly faces from all around at an incredibly well run conference with a stellar set of people. Many thanks to NY Haskell (organizing), Spotify (hosting space), and to all the speakers for a wonderful time. (And of course, your editor would like to thank his employer Well-Typed for sending him!)

But now, since your author has returned, GHC HQ met back up this week for some discussion, with some regularly scheduled topics. For the most part it was a short meeting this week - our goals are pretty well identified:

  • GHC HQ and the Core Libraries Committee have posted a survey on the future of the 7.10 prelude and the FTP/BBP discussion. The deadline is February 20th, so please vote if the discussion is of interest to you. Simon Peyton-Jones and Simon Marlow will be making the final decision. https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2015-February/118095.html

  • It’s likely GHC HQ will do a third 7.10.1 Release Candidate at the very end of February after the votes are included. We missed some patches in RC2 (such as Phab:D347) and incorporated even more bugfixes, so this is worth a test drive by users.

  • For the most part, things for 7.10 have been going very smoothly other than the debates and a few bugs trickling in - there has not been much ticket activity the past two weeks, so things feel pretty good right now. Austin will mostly be focused on shipping 7.10 and keeping the normal review/patch/triaging cycles going until it’s done. We’re on track to fix all the major bugs we’ve assigned (see milestone:7.10.1).

Since my last post, we’ve also had other random assorted chatter on the mailing lists by the dev team:

Closed tickets the past two weeks include: #10028, #10040, #10031, #9935, #9928, #2615, #10048, #10057, #10054, #10060, #10017, #10038, #9937, #8796, #10030, #9988, #10066, #7425, #7424, #7434, #10041, #2917, #4834, #10004, #10050, #10020, #10036, #9213, and #10047.