AA literals/initialisation

[Brad Anderson]

On Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 19:45:15 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 16:48:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
> wrote:
>> If we're refraining from or delaying pulling contributions for 
>> undue reasons we're doing something wrong.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> The Release Process on the wiki[1] does not have a method for a
> bugfix only release so it's definitely a problem. Both bugfixes
> and features get merged into master.
>
> The release process forbids cherry-picking between branches 
> (some
> rationale for this rule would be nice; it feels like a mistake 
> to
> me) so that can't be used to solve the problem. I don't think
> there is a way to do a bugfix only release without 
> cherry-picking.
>
> If it were me, I'd just would have had both bugfixes and 
> features
> merge into master as described by the release process and have a
> 2.065 branch which a single person is responsible for
> cherry-picking bugfixes into (alternatively you could have
> whoever merges the bugfix into master do it).
>
> Frankly, I think the described Release Process is much more
> complicated than it needs to be. Fundamentally you only need two
> branches at any given time: master and a release branch which
> only exists after the feature freeze takes place for an upcoming
> release (post-release the branch gets tagged, merged back into
> master[2], and deleted).


I had to get this off my chest even if it's unlikely to be
adopted:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Simplified_Release_Process_Proposal