On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:46:52 +0200 "David Nadlinger" <s...@klickverbot.at> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 15:54:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu > wrote: > > I thought a good thing to do is use branching for releases, and > > that we can start doing that without much difficulty. No? > > I think doing that would be a good idea. Some people might prefer > fancier branching schemes, given that handling them is much more > painless with Git than with SVN, but this doesn't prevent us from > implementing release branches as a first step. > > What's also important from a »million users« point of view is > that the origins of every release artifact is traceable, both > internally and for users, both in terms of source code and > tools/commands to prepare the archives. This also applies to beta > releases: Please, PLEASE let's start to properly name them > (dmd-2.060-beta1.zip) along with tagging the respective revisions > in Git and keeping the old versions around, instead of just > overwriting a single archive with unknown (and routinely broken) > contents. Otherwise things are bound to become chaotic once more > than us 15-ish people actually test the betas. > > Which reminds me: We really need to announce the beta releases > more publicly, i.e. in the forums, on the website, on Twitter, > IRC, etc. Once a release is out, we can't take it back, but I'm > sure there are many enthusiastic D users who wouldn't mind > running their projects/test suites against the compiler once > before the official release if they were only asked to. It's easy > to forget if you are subscribed to all the mailing lists, but the > visibility of an upcoming release is almost zero until it is out > of the door. Yes, we have [dmd-beta], but it takes extra effort > to subscribe to it – more people are subscribed to > digitalmars.D.announce via the mail gateway then to the > low-volume beta list! > +1 ALL Along those lines, I really think dmd-beta should me moved to the newsgroups. Granted, I am biased since I hate mailing lists. But moving it to NG means: - Consistency with the rest of the D traffic. - Easier to find/discover/subscribe. - Easier to follow the branches of discussion: Not everyone's email client does threading, but it's standard on NG readers. - We get forum.dlang.org integration and the associated visibility and google/bing-ability basically for free.
