[Development] [Releasing] Qt 5.0 alpha released

[Thiago Macieira]

On quinta-feira, 5 de abril de 2012 14.50.17, marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com 
wrote:
> Lars and I also discussed putting a temporary hold on staging rights for 
> anyone except maintainers during the release cycle. Opinions on that 
> approach?

I think it makes sense, if you can do it per branch. We need a "branch where 
release will happen from", and we need some deeper control of the changes 
going in. If we can do it just socially, without Gerrit changes, it would be 
fine.

Without deciding now which branch that will be -- topic for another discussion 
-- I expect the workflow for a release to be something along the lines of:

1) RM makes a package
2) platforms get tested, showstopper bugs get reported
3) Release Team makes a collective decision on go/no-go based on #2
4) fixes are made, targeting the release branch
5) maintainers approve those changes
6) go back to 1

The platforms that participate in the testing in 2 and fix their bugs in 4 get 
the title of "Tier 1". If they participate in the testing but don't have the 
ability to fix all the bugs before the release (but soon after with a few 
patches), they are "Tier 2".

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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