[Dlang-internal] dmd semver experiment

[Martin Nowak]

On Tuesday, 15 May 2018 at 18:58:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> What about an LTS approach that was suggested in the general 
> form [1]. Release as often as we do now and, in addition to 
> that, support an LTS release that will only get bug fixes? The 
> LTS can be released once or twice every year. LDC can choose to 
> only track the LTS releases.
>
> [1] 
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/cgqcbhudipokyumimbua@forum.dlang.org

LTS means extra work as someone has to backport fixes to the old 
release.

While moving more changes to minor releases, and keeping major 
changes for major releases every 6 months would be about the same 
effort.