[Development] Focusing bug fixes to 5.9 branch and patch releases during H1/17

Marc Mutz marc.mutz at kdab.com
Wed Feb 15 11:11:15 CET 2017


On Wednesday 15 February 2017 10:36:33 Sean Harmer wrote:
> First of all, apologies for not being able to make the release meeting
> yesterday. I was in a workshop all day.
> 
> For the record I think skipping 5.8.1 is a big mistake. I would much rather
> delay 5.9 by a few weeks and have a 5.8.1 release out than skip it and try
> for a quick 5.9.0.

Amen.

I would like to add that this decision, made behind closed doors, does not 
match well with Qt-as-an-open-governance-project. In particular, it feels like 
we OSS contributors are being held hostage here. If you close the 5.8 CI, 
anything we can do, incl. following the dictate of TQC to focus on 5.9, will 
hurt Qt users one way or another. Either we fragment Qt by releasing a 5.8.1 
without TQC backing or we leave users hanging in the air for extended periods 
of time without the ability for bugfixes. Both are unacceptable, IMHO.

Thanks,
Marc

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