Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

[Don Clugston]

On 25/07/12 14:32, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-07-25 09:43, Don Clugston wrote:
>
>> We don't need this complexity. The solution is *trivial*. We just need
>> to decide in advance that we will target a release every X weeks, and
>> that it should be delayed only for reasons of stability.
>
> Yeah, but what happens when Walter or someone else decides to start a
> big project, i.e. implementing COFF support, a week before release? We
> end up with a bunch of half finished things.

If we had an agreed release cycle, it would not happen. The release 
cycle would be a higher authority than any single person, even Walter.

> A solution to this would be to create a new branch or not push the
> changes upstream. Although I don't understand why Walter doesn't already
> do this.
>
>> An agreement is ALL that is required. But despite repeated requests, I
>> have never been able to get any traction on the idea.
>> Instead, people propose all kinds of crazy technical solutions, the most
>> recent ones being changes to bugzilla, trello, and now dlang-stable.
>>
>> If we say, "There will be a new compiler release every 8 weeks", the
>> problem is solved. Seriously. That one-off agreement is ALL that is
>> required.
>
> Apparently it seems very difficult to agree upon, since it hasn't
> happened. The releases just pop up at random.

I have tried many times, without success. I've never succeeded in 
getting more than two or three people interested.