How are we supposed to take OSS Swift serious when we don't get timely Hotfixes?

[xwu (Xiaodi Wu)]

@robertjpayne

Hi @xwu

The bug specifically is https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-10333 and was fixed 5 days after the toolchain was released on April 23rd https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/pull/2123 .

If you share code across platforms you cannot use any version of Xcode that uses the Swift 5.x toolchain has it has incompatible changes that do not compile with the Swift 4.x toolchain (even if you leave the syntax mode as Swift 4.x).

Again I'm just expressing frustration that we're not seeing hot fix releases for major regressions like this, it seems like something else needs to be done to ensure we get more timely hot fixes for regressions or other major bugs.

The bug you refer to is specific to swift-corelibs-foundation; as @johannesweiss notes in the second link you post, the fix will be incorporated into the next minor OSS release. Everyone can open pull requests to cherry pick bug fixes for these monthly releases.