Is D releasing too often?

[Dejan Lekic]

On Monday, 14 May 2018 at 07:20:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> There have been 6 major releases of dmd over the last year, 
> with ldc trying to keep pace, currently only one release 
> behind. This is a big jump up from the previous release 
> schedule, I see 2 major releases in 2014, 3 in 2015, and 3 in 
> 2016.
>
> There are obviously pros and cons to each pace, and this has 
> been debated internally before, with one of the ldc devs again 
> posting to the Internals mailing list today questioning the 
> current speed.
>
> I thought I'd open it up to the community: now that you've 
> experienced this faster pace, as a user of the D compilers, how 
> do you like it? Would you prefer a slower release schedule, say 
> 3-4 major releases a year?
>
> I thought 6/year was an ambitious schedule when announced and I 
> wonder if it isn't putting too much strain on our few release 
> maintainers, maybe 3-4 releases/year would be a more gradual 
> bump up.

I have nothing against releasing that often as long as there is a 
LTS version, and that is where the problem lies - we do not have 
it. So what I do is simply base my production code on particular 
release, and every few months allocate few days job to try to 
bring the code up-to-date with latest DMD.