Release planning for 2.063

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 07:27:36 Maxim Fomin wrote:
> On Monday, 25 February 2013 at 18:47:21 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> > As there were complaints about not having a release schedule
> > for 2.062
> > and releases being made suddenly without no prior announcement,
> > how
> > about planning the 2.063 release now?
> > 
> > (rest skipped)
> 
> That's fine and long overdue thing.
> 
> Judging by how D project is inertive (I believe Walter
> contributed mostly to this) I suggest that planning only release
> day (perhaps += beta) is enough and even such limited decision
> would be a significant step. The greater the plan is, the more
> likely it would not be followed. I can hadrly imagine Walter
> agreeing to release beta at specific day let alone some RC.

Aiming to make releases (particularly bug-fix releases) at some specific 
interval makes some sense, but all you can reasonably do with that is plan for 
when the next beta starts. When it makes sense for the actual release to 
happen depends entirely on what bugs there are - particularly if we stop ever 
doing a release with no regressions (which Brad keeps insisting on but Walter 
pretty much never does). Planning on how many RCs there will be or when 
they'll be or anything like that makes no sense at all.

- Jonathan M Davis