D Editions

[Atila Neves]

On Monday, 3 June 2024 at 10:49:10 UTC, Quirin Schroll wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 May 2024 at 18:31:48 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> https://github.com/atilaneves/DIPs/blob/editions/editions.md
>
> It looks like Editions are intended to be (Gregorian) years. If 
> that is the case, the DIP should explicitly say that. I like 
> the idea, but it limits us to making a new edition at most once 
> per year. That might sound like a reasonable assumption, but it 
> may fail occasionally, e.g. if regressions are found and fixed. 
> It could be worth having a monthly or even a weekly resolution 
> in Editions, i.e. make edition IDs of the form `YYYY-MM` or 
> `YYYY-WW` where `WW` is the number of the week of the year 
> (ranging between 1 and 53).

I left it open in case we decided to not go with the year of 
release, but I'd rather that be the case. I don't think releasing 
editions more frequently than that is a good idea, and that bug 
fixes are something else entirely.