On Sunday, 11 June 2017 at 00:37:09 UTC, ketmar wrote:
Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
I think dev resources are thin because of mismanagement by the
core team failing to attract and retain contributors. Part of
this mismanagement is a really discouraging attitude toward
positive yet breaking change; I propose that mere willingness
to shake up the status quo would help to solve the resource
shortage.
+1
actually, some time ago i proposed to create "experimental and
breaking language changes" subforum, where people can go with
their wild ideas, and other people can post patches/builds with
those (or other) ideas imlemented/half-implemented.
That's called a feature-branch ;-)
The nightlies and CI scripts fully support feature branches since
a couple of months (i.e. the same branch is checked out on all
dmd, druntime and phobos).
Currently it's only used for `scope` and `newCTFE`:
http://nightlies.dlang.org
Currently not much is happening on these feature branches and
thus Martin is running the builds on demand by hand.
However, from a technical point of view, it would be rather easy
to use this for more feature branches ;-)
