DMD v2.066.0-b3

[Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 7/12/14, 4:31 PM, Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 July 2014 at 00:13:47 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> For convenience, the list of unresolved issues marked as regressions:
>> https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=regression&resolution=---
>>
>> Seems like there is still quite a way to go until we can release RC1.
>>
>> David
>
> David, I'm sure you are aware that list will never be empty. The last release lasted from mid
> November to 24 February and that list was never empty once during that entire time. The only way we
> will empty that list is to prevent people from submitting new regressions during a review.
>
> When I checked the list yesterday the count was at 9: right now it is at 12. And at least on of
> those items on the list has been there since 2011.
>
> The reality is that zero emphasis is place on regressions unless it's time for a release, and even
> then, only a few people pay attention to them. Everyone else just continue on in their happy world
> doing "what's important to them".  You you cannot ask that anyone work on anything because if it's
> not important in their minds, they will not do it. They'd much rather sit around and biker about how
> you did it incorrectly. Which, in my opinion, is a huge wast of time and resource.
>
> So I have some questions: What is the magic number that will trigger the release? What happens if we
> never reach that number? Do we just continue waiting for it or do we make a decision at some point
> that it's time? If so, how long do we wait? Is there one person who makes the decision, or is it
> decision automatic? If there is a person, who is it?

An important topic, certainly.  But not for the announce newsgroup.  Please continue this over on 
the beta list.