DMD release cadence report 2023

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2024 11:51:16 PM MDT Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 April 2024 at 18:43:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Monday, April 22, 2024 1:56:35 PM MDT Iain Buclaw via
> >
> > Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >> Moving forward for the next 12 months, is keeping at this pace
> >> fine? Should it slow down or speed up?
> >
> > I've been fine with the current cadence. I'd also be fine with
> > more frequent major releases. Either way, I wouldn't really
> > want it slowed down. It would get particularly annoying with
> > stuff like additions to the bindings in druntime, since
> > depending on the timing, those can take around two months to
> > become available as things have been, and I wouldn't want to
> > see that take even longer.
>
> If there are changes that need to land sooner, then said PRs
> should target the stable branch which releases are cut from.
>
> I don't have any answers, but if I'm having to explain the
> process, maybe something is being done wrong. Or maybe it's just
> there is no one actively thinking about which changes should
> target which branch when it comes to non-regression fixes.

It was my understanding that stable was only supposed to have fixes, but I
don't know what the exact policy is.

- Jonathan M Davis