DIP 1013: The Deprecation Process -- Community Review Round 1

[Martin Nowak]

On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 at 12:40:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> 2. Somewhere, it should state that the goal is for the typical 
> deprecation cycle for a symbol to last approximately two years 
> and that the number of releases was picked on the assumption 
> that we would have approximately 5 - 6 major releases a year. 
> So, if at some point in the future, the typical number of 
> releases in a year changes for whatever reason, the number of 
> releases of the deprecation cycle should then be adjusted so 
> that the deprecation cycle stays approximately two years long.

At the moment we have a clear bi-monthly release cycle (1st of 
every odd month).

In the long-run I'd like to transition to one major releases 
every 6 months and strictly non-breaking, non-deprecating point 
releases every 2 months. So far there wasn't much interest in the 
necessary development adjustments though.
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/drcekmxvfszpwifbukzk@forum.dlang.org