Build Master: Scheduling

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On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 00:37:38 UTC, Tyro[17] wrote:
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> Your thoughts and concerns please.

Key problem here is that you call by beta something that is 
really not a beta. It is short term support release similar to 
ones we currently have with a shorter release schedule. And if it 
is _really_ supposed to be beta (== with some potentially unfixed 
regressions remaining) it is not really usable even in bleeding 
edge code.

I have been proposing for ages to take existing 
http://wiki.dlang.org/Release_Process and define long-term 
support releases on top of it (== "normal" releases in your 
proposal). That way one can do releases once in 2 months to keep 
stuff going and mark ones as LTS once in a 6 months (with 
intention to backport non-breaking fixes into last 2 LTS) for 
users that want more stability.

It fulfills same goals but does not result in broken releases / 
confusing naming.