Suggestion about releases

[Imperatorn]

On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 15:36:41 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 14:30:52 UTC, Paul Backus 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 09:13:59 UTC, Imperatorn 
>> wrote:
>>> The logic behind that is it would hopefully put more focus on 
>>> testing and reliability etc. If we have to live with a 
>>> release for a longer time period, the theory is everyone will 
>>> be more cautious when making a change.
>>
>> I think your hopes here are probably misplaced. Every change 
>> to D's core components (dmd, druntime, and phobos) is already 
>> run through the full CI suite and subject to code review 
>> before merging. The kinds of bugs that slip past these filters 
>> are probably not going to be caught by something as simple as 
>> "more caution."
>
> Worse: they'll take longer to be be discovered and fixed.

What's the alternative? Just rolling releases every day or even 
don't have releases at all?

To me a release is something that signifies a unit of some kind, 
stuff that belongs together.