working-conventions/releases.md

 # Release management and branches
 
 
-Releases are made by the release manager, currently either Austin Seipp or Ben Gamari. The release manager is also the maintainer of the stable branch, see [\#Branches](working-conventions/releases#branches).
+Releases are made by the release manager, currently Ben Gamari. The release manager is also the maintainer of the stable branch, see [\#Branches](working-conventions/releases#branches).
 
 ## Release Schedule
 
-- Major releases are made once per year, typically around October-November.  We don't work to a fixed deadline, the release will be made when it is ready.
+- Major releases are made twice per year, typically around January-February and June-July. We try to stick to this schedule
 
 - Minor releases are made throughout the year, with no fixed schedule.  Generally there will be 2-3 minor releases for every major release.
 
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Releases are made by the release manager, currently either Austin Seipp or Ben G
 
 - As a policy we provide source distributions to our external binary distribution contributors a week before the binary release is announced to put these contributed distributions on equal footing as the GHC-HQ-provided distributions
 
+- Every release must be bootstrappable with the most recent minor release of each of the two most-recent major releases.
+
 ## Release policies
 
 - Tier 1 [platforms](platforms) must all be in a working state before the release is made.  We make every effort to fix bugs in other platforms too, but bugs on Tier 2/3 platforms are not treated as release-blockers.