D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

[Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 8/19/14, 1:26 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 8/18/14, 5:23 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> On 8/18/2014 7:14 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>>>
>>> I also propose to start 2.067 beta branch right now and declare it yet
>>> another bug-fixing release.
>>
>> Seconded.
>
> Well that's what happened - someone started 2.067. What's the advantage
> of doing this? Now we need to worry about master and 2.067 instead of
> just master. -- Andrei
>

That was my doing... I am preparing myself for the next go around. The 
actual branch will be created on Sunday (24 Aug) for a Monday (0900 PDT) 
announcement. The beta cycle will run eight weeks following that. On the 
fourth week (22 Sept) I will transition from beta to RC.

Betas will be release 5 days apart. RCs will be released 3 days apart. 
If no regression is fixed during that beta/RC window, the window will be 
extended an additional 3/5 days (as appropriate) until either fixes are 
received or the review period ends: at which time the final release is 
prepared and published.

The only thing that will extend the review period is if a regression 
exiting at the time RC1 is released remains open at the end of the 8 
weeks. At that time an additional week will be added to the release 
cycle to address those specific issues. If they cannot be addressed 
during that additional week, the cycle will be terminated and the final 
release published.

All regressions not addressed in the main release will be addressed in 
point releases. Point releases will be published in 2 week increments 
following the final release (as warranted).

Starting with 2.066, releases will be maintained for 1 year. Meaning, 
point releases will be published biweekly (as warranted) for 1 year 
after a major release. The only changes that will be pushed during point 
releases are known regressions and ICE.

To pull this off, I absolutely need the community's assistance. Issues 
must clearly indicate which version affected by a particular regression. 
A volunteer to help me track and categorize ice and regressions would do 
wonders.

Also, I need access to publish and upload to the s3 server. I cannot 
wait around on for files to be synched across servers or web pages to be 
updated with one word changes before I can take the next step, it is 
extremely time consuming and deteriorates productivity.

Note: there will normally be a 4 week break between release cycles. When 
a cycle is extended, the break will be reduced to 3 weeks. This 
particular cycle will start early because 2.066 ended 5 weeks after the 
planned release date.

Andrew