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digitalmars.D.announce - Martin Nowak is our new release czar

reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
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
Feb 04 2015
next sibling parent Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:
On 5/02/2015 1:07 p.m., 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
Congrats! and yay!
Feb 04 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> writes:
On 5 February 2015 at 10:07, 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.

 Please throw your hat in the air with me to hail the new czar! :o)
Huzzah! Or should I say... Huczar! *cough*
Feb 04 2015
parent "eles" <eles eles.com> writes:
On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 03:33:40 UTC, Manu wrote:
 On 5 February 2015 at 10:07, Andrei Alexandrescu via
 Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> 
 wrote:
 Please throw your hat in the air with me to hail the new czar! 
 :o)
Huzzah! Or should I say... Huczar!
Vive le Dzar!
Feb 05 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent "Jesse Phillips" <Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com> writes:
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
Martin, thank you for stepping up.
Feb 04 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent "Meta" <jared771 gmail.com> writes:
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.
The D developer circle is far more cutthroat and ruthless than I had originally thought.
Feb 04 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:

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

 Andrei
Thanks Martin, good luck. May the source be with you.
Feb 05 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 2/4/2015 4:07 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 Please throw your hat in the air with me to hail the new czar! :o)
Congrats, Martin!
Feb 05 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent ketmar <ketmar ketmar.no-ip.org> writes:
congrats, Martin.

may the Force be with you!=
Feb 05 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent "Ilya Yaroshenko" <ilyayaroshenko gmail.com> writes:
Congratulations, Your Imperial Majesty!
Feb 05 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
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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Feb 05 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnci?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:
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?
Feb 05 2015
parent reply "Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnci?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:
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/
Feb 05 2015
parent Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 15:26 +0000, via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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 Copied from Chrome release Schedule I supposed :)
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 http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/google-chrome-release-cycle-slideshow/
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Feb 05 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent "Mathias LANG" <geod24 gmail.com> writes:
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.
Feb 05 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent "CraigDillabaugh" <craig.dillabaugh gmail.com> writes:
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 ... /\ / \ ------ well, ASCII art was never one of my strong suits.)
Feb 05 2015
prev sibling parent Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
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.
Feb 06 2015