Build Master: Scheduling

[Wyatt]

On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 05:05:39 UTC, Tyro[17] wrote:
> It's been approximately six months since the release of 2.063 
> (alright five+: May 28 to Nov 5). I don't think too many of us 
> lost sleep over that. There is nothing ridiculously long about 
> six months.
>
I'm not using HEAD either and its annoying having to wait for 
updates with useful fixes and changes.  Also, longer cycles means 
more breakage for people who run the "stable" release.

> What I am proposing is that you get a package every month. That 
> should be enough time to ferry out any regression that may crop 
> up. Use the betas on a monthly basis and you get to ride the 
> bullet train.

The problem here is the beta becomes the de facto stable because 
people want to be able to use the new things that the 
documentation says they can and the breakage is amortised over 
months, rather than coming in a huge spike every half year.  This 
really needs to be avoided.  If you look at the movement of 
active projects in the past few years, most seem to be settling 
on shorter release cycles for similar reasons.

-Wyatt