[dmd-beta] Preparation for 2.65

[Brad Anderson]

That is my major concern with it as well and is the one thing I don't like
about it (I've actually written here in the past arguing against extensive
cherry-picking). That's also why I wrote the feature freeze/beta window
should be short.  Perhaps it's wishful thinking that it will be short in
practice.  The alternative as I see it is to have every contributor know
the process and know when we are in in a feature freeze/beta and know where
to target their 2 pull requests. That would be ideal but as a practical
matter I'm more inclined to believe assigning that job to one person who is
responsible for it and knows what they should be doing and when will lead
to better results.

Alternatives to this are welcome but I really feel strongly about keeping
it very, very simple (especially for contributors who may or may not be
privy to the current state of the release cycle).


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Михаил Страшун <public at dicebot.lv> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:38 PM, David Nadlinger <code at klickverbot.at>wrote:
>>
>> I suspect that liberal use of cherry-picking will make this process a
>> bit more annoying than necessary, but it could be that the
>> simplification of the process indeed outweighs this extra bit of
>> effort.
>>
>
> I feel it rather unjust to put that extra effort on Andrew simply because
> we can't self-organize to conform existing rules but right now it just does
> not work :(
>
> However I think resolution of such conflicts can be made very
> straightforward and even made automatic via simple script (by providing
> list of identical commit pairs to script and making it skip one of those).
> Worth investigating.
>
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