[Development] Commit policy (was: Qt Commercial 4.8.0 release delta to LGPL version)

[Olivier Goffart]

On Thursday 15 December 2011 22:31:32 Robin Burchell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Robin Burchell <robin+qt at viroteck.net> 
wrote:
> >> Wasn't the policy to first push the code in Qt5, then backport in Qt
> >> 4.8?> 
> > I'd agree that would make sense to be a policy. But for it to be a
> > policy, it needs to be documented and communicated somewhere. You
> > can't expect this information to just filter out by itself, or expect
> > that it's common sense for everyone.
> > 
> > I don't see this listed on http://wiki.qt-project.org/Commit_Policy.
> > Should it be?
> 
> Actually, when I read this a second time looking for something
> relevant, I see the complete opposite:
> 
> "11. Make sure you submit against the lowest applicable branch from
> which a release is still planned. Cherry-picks ("backports") are
> frowned upon, while forward-merging to more recent branches happens on
> a regular basis."

Well, that is when the branches lies in the same repository.
With Qt 4 cannot be merged in Qt 5 because of the modularisation.