On Wednesday, 12 December 2012 at 07:01:14 UTC, Rob T wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 December 2012 at 05:32:13 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 December 2012 at 04:36:36 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/10/2012 8:21 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Yes I understand that, and it is being extensively and
heavily used since the
day I posted it, and no problems have arisen.
I should also add that the design was based on extensive
discussions about it here last summer.
Discussions are not enough. Issues and usage patterns only
appear after several months of experience by several users. We
need several months of experience before actually gaining any
insight and feedback on such a feature.
The root problem is that we have one branch for the unstable,
testing, and stable code, and there's no possible way to make
anyone happy with only that in place.
The chaotic clash between stableness and unstableness will go
away once we have a well thought out development and release
process put in place, and it should make everyone happy because
it can allow for breaking new changes to be introduced into an
unstable branch without messing up the next pre-release
version, and updates to pre-release won't mess up the current
stable branch because it only gets updated with bug fixes.
I think we all agree on this. Or else we should.
