[dmd-beta] Release Engineering as a Force Multiplier

[Marco Leise]

Am 21.01.2014, 17:51 Uhr, schrieb Jesse Phillips  
<jesse.k.phillips at gmail.com>:

> Have the regressions been continuous? Or just during the initial change  
> in
> process? I didn't notice any stability changes. The version numbers have
> nothing to do with the talk.

I have only been using Firefox to test a HTML5/JavaScript project at the  
time of the change which honestly felt like a struggle to keep up with  
Google suddenly dishing out new browser versions every few weeks. For a  
long time FF was a pretty stable target, then in the middle of our  
development two new versions of FF were published that broke something  
else in HTML5 and kept me coming back to extending the "browser quirks"  
secion. Some people even reported bugs in my program, while using beta  
versions. One of that betas later got stable with a known regression still  
in it (cocerning HTML5 canvas glow IIRC). So yeah, this release process at  
that time was more than questionable. I cannot say if that changed later  
along the way, since I didn't use FF often after that project.