Am Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:45:27 -0700 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]>: > > - We do not have any defined release timeline. When is it time to > > start prepping for a release? It's up to Walter's arbitrary decision > > for when this happens, he doesn't even talk to the community or > > contributors on whether it's a good time for a beta phase (maybe > > there's a huge or disruptive new pull request that's planning to be > > merged and a beta should be delayed). > > I understand how that can be a bother. Walter figures the time is > ripe for a new release when we have enough compelling features and > fixes. I'll try to make the appropriate announcements in the future > prior to deciding on starting a beta. >
Why is everyone here so obsessed with feature based releases? Quoting Iain's post from 30.8: > It has been about 3 months since the last release of the D > front-end implementation. Three years experience and carrying > out over 100 merges into GDC tells me that each time the > development cycle starts edging towards it's fourth month, it > makes things an absolute nightmare, in both the time consumed > merging in the changes, and with time spent tracking down bug > reports for unittests/testsuite cases that test backend code > generation - with 2.060, 2.061 and 2.063 being the worst releases > I have ever had to deal with - before 2.060 the release schedule > (if it even qualifies as a 'schedule') was anywhere between 1-2 > months. Even a rough schedule (We try to release a new frontend version every 2 months) would help. Would it have been the end of the world if we just released 2.064 two months ago and 2.065 now? But what's worse: If we keep making feature based releases then the criteria for release should be documented by those making the decision. It's as simple as writing two sentences on a wiki page. Right now I don't have any clue why the 'time is ripe' now and not 2 months ago, or one month ago, or in two weeks... It seems like Walter is just flipping a coin every month (I don't say it is like that - but it looks like that because there's no information on the release criteria) And btw: 5 months between releases is just way too long for users as well. Although the features Walter envisioned for 2.064 may not have been ready 2 months ago we could have shipped many bug fixes two months earlier.
