Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

[Brad Anderson]

On Monday, 16 July 2012 at 19:35:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> [snip]
>
> I agree this would be more direct. But I fail to see how Walter 
> cherry-picking stuff is "basically no additional work", whereas 
> Adam doing essentially the same is an unenviable "amount of 
> labor".
>

He wouldn't be cherry-picking anything. All he'd have to do is a 
checkout (one command) before switching between working on 
features (and by features I mean breaking or major changes) or 
bugs. Adam, on the other hand, would be running git cherry-pick 
over and over dodging changes he determines are too risky to 
include in stable. It also seems like there is a lot more room 
for mistakes to be made doing it this way.

> Besides, if Walter is at the same time doing things and 
> deciding their category may work worse than a small team making 
> the assessment by consensus.
>

Perhaps. More eyes are better. It just seems like way more work 
than is necessary to accomplish the goal of isolating breaking 
changes so that stable releases can go out easier. The end result 
is all I'm interested in personally since I'm not the one doing 
the work here. I'm not too concerned with whether you use my idea 
or not. I just thought you guys might like to hear an alternative 
that is much easier for you while remaining easy for Walter.

Regards,
Brad Anderson