[Development] [Releasing] Bumping Qt 4 version to 4.8.5

[Konstantin Tokarev]

04.12.2012, 19:56, "Pau Garcia i Quiles" <pgquiles at elpauer.org>:
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen at digia.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:53:41AM +0000, Vladimir Minenko wrote:
>>> > After yesterdays release we are planning to bump the Qt 4 version to 4.8.5.
>>>
>>> Guys, would it be a big problem to wait with this until the end of this week? We are releasing the final NDK this week and a change in the version is will cause trouble. We will definitely revert it internally which will bring Qt in the NDK out of sync with the upstream Qt...
>>>
>> i don't get your reasoning. the branch already has additional commits,
>> so whatever you release, it's *not* stock 4.8.4, and you are doing
>> everyone a disservice claiming it. and once you accept that it's
>> 4.8.4-rim, it doesn't matter what the version in the repository says, as
>> you need to change it anyway.
> This is why at work we use a different branching model, also based on gitflow but with differences.
> For instance, for each major release, we have a release-x.y-stabilization and a release-x.y-releases. In this case, RIM would have taken 4.8.4 from release-x.y-releases instead of master. Picture attached.

There's no point in keeping separate branch purely for tags. It is just an unnecessary overcomplication.

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Regards,
Konstantin