Opportunities for D
John Colvin via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 10 07:03:10 PDT 2014
On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 13:09:42 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Dicebot:
>
>> No one but Walter / Andrei can do anything about it. Right now
>> we are in weird situation when they call for "lieutenants" but
>> are not ready to abandon decision power. It can't possibly
>> work that way. No amount of volunteer effort will help when so
>> many PR stall waiting for resolution comment from one of
>> language "generals".
>
> It seems an important topic. Pull reverts (like:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/e5f7f41d253aacc601be64b5a1e4f24cd5ecfc32
> ) aren't process failures, they should be normal parts of the
> dmd/Phobos development process. Even if 5-8% of the merges gets
> reverted, it's still OK. And now there is the cherry picking,
> so it's hard to pollute betas with bad patches.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
Yes. An advantage of a structured formal release process is that
it frees up development to make mistakes in the short term.
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