Front-end release.NEXT

Adam Wilson flyboynw at gmail.com
Fri Aug 30 12:05:12 PDT 2013


On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 06:41:34 -0700, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Morning all,
>
> It has been about 3 months since the last release of the D front-end  
> implementation.  Three years experience and carrying out over 100 merges  
> into GDC tells me that each time the development cycle starts edging  
> towards it's fourth month, it makes things an absolute nightmare, in  
> both the time consumed merging in the changes, and with time spent  
> tracking down bug reports for unittests/testsuite cases that test  
> backend code generation - with 2.060, 2.061 and 2.063 being the worst  
> releases I have ever had to deal with - before 2.060 the release  
> schedule (if it even qualifies as a 'schedule') was anywhere between 1-2  
> months.
>
> So I would want to give everyone on the dev team a kick and get the  
> alpha/beta out the door.
>
> Across D/Druntime/Phobos, there are currently 26 open major bugs since  
> 28/05/2013.
> http://bit.ly/173WrZf
>
> 18 open critical bugs.
> http://bit.ly/16WkhcM
>
> 5 blockers.
> http://bit.ly/18q1pkC
>
> And 14 regressions.
> http://bit.ly/15pLzVb
>
>
> Regards
> Iain

I don't know how much action D is going to be getting next week due to  
Walter's attendance of GoingNative, but IIRC last year Walter was able to  
sneak in a commit or two...

This would actually be a good opportunity for the community to have pulls  
fixing the Criticals/Blockers/Regressions waiting for Walter when he gets  
back from GoingNative. Might make getting a new release that much smoother  
and sooner. :-)

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/


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