Is it time for D 3.0?

[Petar]

On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 at 05:30:41 UTC, Mathias LANG wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 March 2020 at 23:25:31 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
> Wakeling wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 31 March 2020 at 17:52:39 UTC, Mathias LANG wrote:
>>> Why do you think it would ? At the moment we have a sliding 
>>> window for deprecation. We'd just change that to have a 
>>> specific time for removal. I don't see how that would make 
>>> every release a breaking change ?
>>
>> Yup, assuming the current 3-month release cadence continues it 
>> would make sense to make all breaking changes in only one of 
>> those 4 quarterly releases.  A Christmas present to the 
>> community? O:-)
>
> That would be a step... Sideways ?
>
> Currently we follow this: 
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/5afe088809bed47e45e14c9a90d7e78910ac4054/DIPs/accepted/DIP1013.md
> Personally, the main disruption I had over the last 2 years was 
> the concurrent GC (a new feature) being enabled by default. 
> There was hardly any breaking change.
>
> With the current 10-release deprecation period and 3-months 
> between release, this means a deprecation is up for 30 months, 
> or 2 1/2 years before being removed. I don't think we should 
> shorten it any further, it already proved problematic on some 
> occasions (e.g. body => do).

Small correction: we have a major release every two months - see: 
https://dlang.org/changelog/release-schedule.html

You can see the history of releases here: 
https://dlang.org/changelog/index.html