Andrei Alexandrescu, el 18 de October a las 11:45 me escribiste:

> >- We do not have any defined release timeline. When is it time to
> >start prepping for a release? It's up to Walter's arbitrary decision
> >for when this happens, he doesn't even talk to the community or
> >contributors on whether it's a good time for a beta phase (maybe
> >there's a huge or disruptive new pull request that's planning to be
> >merged and a beta should be delayed).
>
> I understand how that can be a bother. Walter figures the time is
> ripe for a new release when we have enough compelling features and
> fixes. I'll try to make the appropriate announcements in the future
> prior to deciding on starting a beta.

Just a brief comment about this: sometimes regularity could be better
than tons of new features/bugfixes.

> Walter scrambled to implement UDAs in a rush and breaking protocol
> in order to win a corporate D user, Remedy Games. It was a major,
> exceptional event. Would you have preferred the protocol to have
> been followed at the cost of Remedy?

That's not the entire story. Back then Walter still push changes to the
repo himself. That was the main problem, and fortunately it finally
changed. He did that all the time in the past, UDAs wasn't an exception,
but it had a high impact back then because Walter was the only one not
going through the review process, it so felt doubly unfair.

> So when I have a few free minutes, I try to take a look at the
> extant pull requests - really, any would do. I try to pull in those
> that are meaningful and uncontroversial. I agree I could probably
> spend more time on carefully analyzing interactions between pulls,
> but that's time I can't afford.

I think the alternative is merging one, wait for the autotester, merge
another and wait for the autotester, and so on. I would be more annoying
having to wait for every test, but there is really no rush to make
a bunch in one go. I think it would be extremely helpful to have some
help from the autotester to auto-merge too. Like marking a pull request
as approved so the auto-tester merges it automatically when it passes the
test. Dreaming?

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