Our tentative plans for releases and the git switchover are as follows:

 - do a 7.0.2 RC very soon, followed by a release

 - switch the GHC repo to git (this is ready to go, we just need to
   flip the switch and do some work on the wiki documentation)

 - switch the libraries and other repositories to git, once we have
   decided on the strategy (mirror or convert) for each one.

 - make a new stable branch for 7.2, and release 7.2.1 shortly after.

So we'll be doing a 7.2.1 release much earlier than planned.  Our motivation for doing this is:

 - the 7.0 branch is darcs, but the HEAD will be git, so the longer
   this situation persists the more difficult it is to merge changes.
   Hence we want to fork a new STABLE branch as soon as possible.

 - 7.0.2 should be a nice stable release, and HEAD is actually in
   pretty good shape right now too.