On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 16:07 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> Andrew Edwards, our former release czar, declined his czardom
> because he
> went to college. Thanks and good luck!

s/declined/abdicate/

> He left a void of power. After a period of turmoil and intestine
> political fights, we have a new, ruthless czar: Martin Nowak. He
> plans to put us on a path of regular, predictable 6-week releases,
> thus ending
> the D Middle Ages.

s/intestine/internecine/

though I hope no one actually got destroyed in the political battles.

> 
> Please throw your hat in the air with me to hail the new czar! :o)

The Czar is de^H^Hgone, long live the Czar.

> 
> Andrei
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On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 00:07:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Martin Nowak. He plans to put us on a path of regular, predictable 6-week releases, thus ending the D Middle Ages.

How will the development process of the D Community change with 6-week releases?

On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 00:07:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Andrew Edwards, our former release czar, declined his czardom because he went to college. Thanks and good luck!
>
> He left a void of power. After a period of turmoil and intestine political fights, we have a new, ruthless czar: Martin Nowak. He plans to put us on a path of regular, predictable 6-week releases, thus ending the D Middle Ages.
>
> Please throw your hat in the air with me to hail the new czar! :o)
>
>
> Andrei

Wonderful news ! Looking forward to 2.067.

On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 15:14:01 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
>> Martin Nowak. He plans to put us on a path of regular, predictable 6-week releases, thus ending the D Middle Ages.
>
> How will the development process of the D Community change with 6-week releases?

Copied from Chrome release Schedule I supposed :)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/google-chrome-release-cycle-slideshow/

On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 00:07:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Andrew Edwards, our former release czar, declined his czardom because he went to college. Thanks and good luck!
>
> He left a void of power. After a period of turmoil and intestine political fights, we have a new, ruthless czar: Martin Nowak. He plans to put us on a path of regular, predictable 6-week releases, thus ending the D Middle Ages.
>
> Please throw your hat in the air with me to hail the new czar! :o)
>
>
> Andrei

So, reading between the lines, what you are trying to say is Martin was the only volunteer.

Thanks Martin, and good luck!  (Tosses hat ...

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On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 15:26 +0000, via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> 
[…]
> Copied from Chrome release Schedule I supposed :)
> 
> http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/google-chrome-release-cycle-slideshow/

Sadly, Chrome Stable is getting worse and worse :-(

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On 5 Feb 2015 00:10, "Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Edwards, our former release czar, declined his czardom because he
went to college. Thanks and good luck!
>
> He left a void of power. After a period of turmoil and intestine
political fights, we have a new, ruthless czar: Martin Nowak. He plans to put us on a path of regular, predictable 6-week releases, thus ending the D Middle Ages.
>

I would go one step further and request that there will be long term maintained releases too.  This benefits projects with longer time schedules.

For instance, should a D frontend be accepted for GCC, I'd expect community to help support whatever version of D was available at the time of the development window closing (normally three months before official release).

We already have this to a minor extent (and comes about with less and less frequency) in Debian/Ubuntu, where someone using 12.04LTS gets gdc-4.6 (2.055 frontend), then asks why they can't build X?  Answer - because no one thought to write code that maintained support for it.

Iain.