Suggestion about releases

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 14:30:52 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 09:13:59 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>> The logic behind that is it would hopefully put more focus on 
>> testing and reliability etc. If we have to live with a release 
>> for a longer time period, the theory is everyone will be more 
>> cautious when making a change.
>
> I think your hopes here are probably misplaced. Every change to 
> D's core components (dmd, druntime, and phobos) is already run 
> through the full CI suite and subject to code review before 
> merging. The kinds of bugs that slip past these filters are 
> probably not going to be caught by something as simple as "more 
> caution."

Worse: they'll take longer to be be discovered and fixed.