[Development] [Releasing] Qt 5.0 alpha released

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:54:56AM -0300, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On quinta-feira, 5 de abril de 2012 13.49.40, marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com 
> wrote:
> > Those were local in Simo's machine due to some cherry-picking of not yet
> > landed changed. I wanted to tag with reviewed an landed changes though
> 
> Please upload the exact SHA-1 from Simo's machine because those are in the 
> released package now.
> 
> I recommend the procedure:
> 
> per-module:
> 1) git tag -a the *exact* SHA-1 that are found on Simo's machine
>    if the module does not follow Qt's versioning, tag it as "qt-v5.0.0-alpha1"
>    retroactively setting the date too with GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
> 2) wait for the fixes to land
> 3) git merge -s ours v5.0.0-alpha1
> 4) push the merge, approve it, stage it
> 
or just admit the screwup, and silently upload a tar-ball with the
corrected sha1s, for the sake of not uglifying the git history.
and just for good measure, let simo repeat "i will not bypass CI again"
about a thousand times.