6-weeks release cycle

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/5/15 12:28 PM, David Soria Parra wrote:
> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 19:19:33 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 6/5/15 2:03 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>>> Martin was going for http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP75
>>
>> OK, good, this needs an executive decision. We need a process to be
>>  blessed first before we talk about release frequency. Then
>> everything backfills from there.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> The important bit is to have someone stand up and build the necessary
>  testing infrastructure. I am to blame for not having done much on
> this front yet, due to heavy work load.
>
> Time base release schedules work fine, no matter how tight, but you
> require good infrastructure to find regressions and revert if
> necessary. If people accept that deltas can be very small and that
> reverts will happen to remove an unstable feature, than a 6-week time
> based release schedule is fine. In fact I believe there is a lot to
> gain from it.

I agree. To put this in context:

> OK, good, this needs an executive decision. We need a process to be
> blessed first before we talk about release frequency. Then everything
> backfills from there.

We need a champion to do this and stay with it, not an executive 
decision. _Then_ everything backfills from there.


Andrei