On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 13:09:42 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Dicebot:
No one but Walter / Andrei can do anything about it. Right now
we are in weird situation when they call for "lieutenants" but
are not ready to abandon decision power. It can't possibly
work that way. No amount of volunteer effort will help when so
many PR stall waiting for resolution comment from one of
language "generals".
It seems an important topic. Pull reverts (like:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/e5f7f41d253aacc601be64b5a1e4f24cd5ecfc32
) aren't process failures, they should be normal parts of the
dmd/Phobos development process. Even if 5-8% of the merges gets
reverted, it's still OK. And now there is the cherry picking,
so it's hard to pollute betas with bad patches.
Bye,
bearophile
Yes. An advantage of a structured formal release process is that
it frees up development to make mistakes in the short term.
