On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 09:26:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/23/2013 2:01 AM, Dicebot wrote:
See current beta mailing list for several
examples of what should have never happened in real stable
development process.
The reason it is a beta is so we can identify problems and deal
with them before a release.
In perfect world beta exists to identify problems _unknown_
before. Almost all issues I have seen mentioned so far was known
by developers (those were bug fixes after all) but considered
acceptable to put into compiler anyway. And that is a problem.