Breaking D2 language/spec changes with D1 being discontinued in a month

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 15:34:11 John Colvin wrote:
> * Look at python for example. Effectively the entire language is
> branched every so often and stabilised, including the standard
> library. Major release numbers signify a particular "branch",
> which is then pushed towards it's most stable state, while new
> features and significant code-breaking changes go in the next
> version number.

I don't know if we want to set up our process to match python's (I don't know 
their process well enough to make that evaluation), but I definitely think that 
we need to move to something similar, and projects such as python could 
provide a good model to base what we do off of.

- Jonathan M Davis