Account on ARM/Debian

[David Nadlinger]

On Wednesday, 17 October 2012 at 16:24:44 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> Just to note, even if you're building from source it's handy to 
> have a "stable release" branch alongside the latest dev.

Well, that depends on your definition of stable. LDC Git master 
is supposed always pass the CI tests, i.e. the DMD, druntime and 
Phobos test suites.

A possible extension of that would be to have a separate 
»stable« Git branch which is automatically advanced along with 
master by the CI system whenever a given revision passes all the 
tests. If somebody wants to set up a system like this, I'd be 
happy to officially adopt it.

But in my experience, anything more than that, i.e. declaring 
revisions stable based on criteria which can't be evaluated by an 
automatic test suite, is not worth it, at least for smallish 
projects like LDC. Judging whether a given state is stable by 
hand is notoriously hard to get right, and the reason we have 
beta phases before releases, etc.

David