[dmd-internals] [dmd-beta] Time for new beta

[Walter Bright]

On 5/28/2012 1:07 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> There's an analogy that we like to use at work, and in my experience it holds pretty well for code quality and bleeds
> pretty well into the entire development process:
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
>
> We do an ok job when it comes to the tests (though certainly not perfect).  We've been getting a lot better at
> addressing regressions, though there's still 4 open right now (1 phobos, 2 druntime, 1 dmd).  Can we please make the
> remaining open regressions a release blocker?

My idea is more along the lines of at least having it not be *worse* than the 
previous release. That would be one regression at this point, which has an 
outstanding pull request.




>What's stopping us from handling all pull requests w/in a week?  Or even better a day or two?


Currently I'm working on the 64 bit struct ABI, which is marked as a critical 
blocker (a sentiment I agree with).