Breaking D2 language/spec changes with D1 being discontinued in a month

[deadalnix]

On Thursday, 29 November 2012 at 01:29:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> Since master will almost certainly be the development branch, I 
> don't see how
> that's a problem. The stable branch will be a separate branch, 
> and whoever is
> managing the stable branch will merge stuff from the master 
> branch into it.
>

In this case, all bug fixes are mixed with new feature and then 
have to be separated afterward and remerged into the stable 
branch. This is useless work and it is likely to cause merge 
conflict in the stable branch.

Additionnaly, this become to really suck when several new 
features are dev at the same time.

Finally, yhis is completely inconsistent with how github work in 
the first place.

master make sense as an unstable branch, a release candidate, a 
beta or whatever, but certainly not a dev branch.

> Granted, major stuff like 64-bit Windows support and UDAs 
> should probably be
> introduced on branches separate from master, and it's still a 
> problem if
> they're not, but it won't affect the stable branch if they're 
> not.
>

It will become all bigfixes will be based on code that contains 
the new feature.