Just curious, if Walter is too busy to make DMD more stable, then what does he spend most of his time on? I thought we were done with adding new features to the language (at least for now)?
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Monday, July 16, 2012 13:18:55 Caligo wrote: >> What?! >> >> All he has to do is create a branch and call it stable, or whatever, >> and use cherry-pick to move small stables patches from other branches >> to the stable branch. What's so difficult about that? I don't get >> it. > > It takes up his time for him to do it, and I don't think that there's any > chance whatsoever of him giving someone else commit access to the main dmd > repository to do this (certainly not at this point). He wasn't interested in > changing the versioning or branching stuff at all. He agreed to this plan > (which should be minimally disruptive to him) as an experiment. Depending on > how it goes, we may change how we deal with the main repo, but for now, we're > trying this. And since the likely alternative was that we would continue on > exactly as we have been, this is presumably an improvement for the folks who > wanted a branch with bug fixes with more frequent releases. > > - Jonathan M Davis