Front-end release.NEXT

[Iain Buclaw]

On Aug 30, 2013 2:45 PM, "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Morning all,
>
> It has been about 3 months since the last release of the D front-end
implementation.  Three years experience and carrying out over 100 merges
into GDC tells me that each time the development cycle starts edging
towards it's fourth month, it makes things an absolute nightmare, in both
the time consumed merging in the changes, and with time spent tracking down
bug reports for unittests/testsuite cases that test backend code generation
- with 2.060, 2.061 and 2.063 being the worst releases I have ever had to
deal with - before 2.060 the release schedule (if it even qualifies as a
'schedule') was anywhere between 1-2 months.
>
> So I would want to give everyone on the dev team a kick and get the
alpha/beta out the door.
>
> Across D/Druntime/Phobos, there are currently 26 open major bugs since
28/05/2013.
> http://bit.ly/173WrZf
>
> 18 open critical bugs.
> http://bit.ly/16WkhcM
>
> 5 blockers.
> http://bit.ly/18q1pkC
>
> And 14 regressions.
> http://bit.ly/15pLzVb
>

One month gone and 14 of these have now been closed/fixed.  Still seen no
signs of moving towards a next release...

Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

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