Build Master: Scheduling

[Joseph Cassman]

On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 00:37:38 UTC, Tyro[17] wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have accepted the responsibility of preparing the builds for 
> DMD and would like to engage in conversation about the way 
> ahead.
[...]
> At four-week intervals we make a new beta release. There will 
> be no separate release candidate, but if a serious problem is 
> discovered we may do the next beta ahead of schedule or make a 
> point release. There will be about five or six releases in that 
> series.
[...]
> Beta release (2.065beta1)
>     Created monthly from master, except for those months in 
> which we create a major release. Stable and suitable for users 
> who want the latest code and can live with changes from month 
> to month.
>
> Your thoughts and concerns please.

First congratulations! Appreciate your work on this.

For me, I do not really have the time to keep a local build 
up-to-date to get the latest changes on head. So I would really 
appreciate having a regular binary release that would give me the 
latest changes. Being able to schedule in and rely on the 
proposed monthly beta release would be a big help. Definitely +1 
to that part of the proposal. If a daily snapshot could be 
created reliably then that might work. As long as I can get a 
regular binary to install.

Thanks

Joseph