Haskell Foundation Stability Working Group

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For those who missed it because they had better things to do:

The evolution of GHC

A alternate name e.g. ghc-2021-08.r0 would make it clear that this is a stable fork (snapshot?), and as bugs are found and removed, only the “release number” .rN would be changed. If this works, the same could be done for the last of the ghc-9 series (upon the arrival of ghc-10); only then would ghc-2021-08 stop receiving bug fixes - that activity switches to the renamed “end-version” of ghc-9. All going smoothly (!!!), this gives people the choice of: relative stability with the renamed, m…

Considering the failure to define Haskell 2020, this could provide the basis for a tolerable alternative…