Stable D version?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Sunday, 21 April 2013 at 19:58:14 UTC, Tourist wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've been following the forums for a while. I'm interested in 
> looking into D, but I understand that currently it changes 
> often, and is not very reliable.
> I've also read that there's a new release model planned, where 
> a stable version of the language is released every year or two. 
> Is that so? When would it take place?
>
> What's holding you from releasing a version now and declaring 
> it stable for e.g. a year?

The year long support is not going to be put in place at this 
time. Several took issue with that plan considering it to provide 
limited/no benefit.

The core dev team is currently getting use to using a staging 
branch to prepare a release.

Eventually we may see a release get patched up until the point of 
the next release, but this has not yet been adopted by the core 
team or those writing patches. Having a clear understanding of 
what goes where has been a big point of discussion which again no 
one could agree on the specifics.