Posts for the month of March 2015

GHC Weekly News - 2015/03/24

Hi *,

It's time for the GHC weekly news. We've had an absence of the last one, mostly due to a lot of hustle to try and get 7.10 out the door (more on that shortly throughout this post). But now we're back and everything seems to be taken care of.

This week, in the wake of the GHC 7.10 release (which is occuring EOD, hopefully), GHC HQ met up for a brief chat and caught up:

  • This week GHC HQ met for only a very short time to discuss the pending release - it looks like all the blocking bugs have been fixed, and we've got everything triaged appropriately. You'll hopefully see the 7.10 announcement shortly after reading this.

We've also had small amounts of list activity (the past 6-8 weeks have been very, very quiet it seems):

  • Yitzchak Gale revived a thread he started a while back, which puttered out: bootstrapping GHC 7.8 with GHC 7.10. The long and short of it is, it should just about work - although we still haven't committed to this policy, it looks like Yitz and some others are quite adamant about it. ​https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-March/008531.html

Some noteworthy commits that went into ghc.git in the past two weeks include:

Closed tickets this past week include: #9122, #10099, #10081, #9886, #9722, #9619, #9920, #9691, #8976, #9873, #9541, #9619, #9799, #9823, #10156, #1820, #6079, #9056, #9963, #10164, #10138, #10166, #10115, #9921, #9873, #9956, #9609, #7191, #10165, #10011, #8379, #10177, #9261, #10176, #10151, #9839, #8078, #8727, #9849, #10146, #9194, #10158, #7788, #9554, #8550, #10079, #10139, #10180, #10181, #10170, #10186, #10038, #10164, and #8976.

GHC Weekly News - 2015/03/10

Hi *,

It's that time again! Today GHC HQ met on a Tuesday to avoid some scheduling conflicts, and that means it's time to send some news to people.

Just a quick reminder from last week: we're hoping to make our third GHC 7.10.1 release candidate on Friday, March 13th, with the final release on Friday, March 27th.

  • Today, GHC HQ mostly talked about 7.10 bugs; HEAD is steaming along as usual with no impediments, but we've got several critical bugs we plan on landing fixes for this week; see milestone:7.10.1 for more.

But we've also had a little more list activity this week than we did before:

  • Karel Gardas wrote to the list about how to better parallelize the GHC build. For background, he's using a UltraSPARC T1-CPU/T2000 server with 32 hardware threads over 8 cores, where parallelism is a bigger win than raw single-threaded performance. But despite that, the performance is of the parallel GHC build is relatively abysmal - and Karel wants help brainstorming ideas to fix it. ​https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-March/008474.html

Some noteworthy commits that went into ghc.git in the past week include:

Closed tickets the past week include: #7854, #10118, #10119, #3321, #10132, #9987, #10126, #9707, #10142, #10147, #10113, #9524, #10058, #10100, #2991, #10140, and #9122.

GHC Weekly News - 2015/03/03

Hi *,

It's that time again! Today GHC HQ met on a Tuesday to avoid some scheduling conflicts, and that means it's time to send some news to people.

Just a quick reminder from last week: we're hoping to make our third GHC 7.10.1 release candidate on Friday, March 13th, with the final release on Friday, March 27th.

Today, GHC HQ met up and mostly discussed the current status of GHC 7.10 and its bugs, which you can find on the Status page: ​https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.10.1

But we've also had a little more list activity this week than we did before:

Some noteworthy commits that went into ghc.git in the past week include:

Closed tickets the past week include: #9586, #10122, #10026, #8896, #10090, #10123, #10128, #10025, #10024, #10125, #9994, #9962, #10103, #10112, #10122, #9901, #10130, #10129, #9044, #8342, #8780, #10003, #17, #2530, #8274, and #10107.