April 2021 Monthly Release

[jneira]

• It is release time! @berberman kindly has accepted driving the release this time, many thanks!
• There are quite pr activity recently and ci transient failures has delayed their handling so we have to wait to reach some stability on that side (i hope it will be soon)

[Ailrun]

Out of curiosity, where did you have such a conversation with @berberman?

[jneira]

@Ailrun sorry if i was not being transparent or inclusive, we discussed that in irc/fp discord channels. The idea is if more maintainers know about the process the better.
Maybe we should opened the issue as first step? will do next time

[Ailrun]

@jneira Nothing to sorry about, I was just curious about other communication channels, especially active ones.

[wolverian]

Was this meant to be released as a pre-release?

[berberman]

Was this meant to be released as a pre-release?

It's the routine of performing release -- once the binaries are ready, we will unmark the pre-release status

[berberman]

@jneira Ah, CI job failed: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server/runs/2321922916. What should we do next?

[jneira]

Ugh, it did not fail in the two last releases (but it did before that)
As the document suggests the safer (but maybe too careful) is recreate the tag (deleting it from the repo and create it again from the same commit) and the prerelease from zero (deleting the actual one)
Iirc when i tried to simple rerun the build, it throwed errors cause part of the binaries already existed in the release.

NOTE: As stated in the document an alternative could be build the release in an alternative repo and upload manually the missing binary, to no waste the existing ones. But note the binaries used by ghcup (ending in .tar.gz) are not built if one of main ones fails

[berberman]

It seems that I don't have permission to delete an existing release

[jneira]

Mmm, ok, i've set your user as "maintainer", could you see now a red button close to "Edit release" here: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server/releases/tag/1.1.0?

[berberman]

yes, now I can