Release for GHC 8.8.1

[bgamari]

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[bgamari]

Ping.

[bgamari]

Ping.

[bgamari]

@hvr, can I help here? We really need this ASAP.

[bgamari]

What is the status of this, @hvr?

[bgamari]

@hvr, ping.

[RyanGlScott]

I'm really surprised that @hvr is the only person that has the credentials to make a new upload of parsec to Hackage. Surely we should give others this power to prevent GHC releases from being delayed indefinitely like this?

[aslatter]

I'm not really involved in parsec maintenance in the past few years but I do still have the maintainer bit on Hackage. If there's someone from the GHC team that should have Hackage upload access I'd be happy to add them.

[hvr]

@RyanGlScott note that parsec is not the only package not ready for GHC 8.8; it's just that I often don't see Github notifications; that being said, there were a few minor things I wanted to fix to make good use of the unavoidable release (which is the reason I didn't make one yet rightaway)

[hvr]

@bgamari I've prepared a parsec-3.1.14.0 release candidate:

• https://github.com/haskell/parsec/releases/tag/v3.1.14.0-rc
• http://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec-3.1.14.0/candidate