[Development] requesting an own 4.8-blackberry10 branch on gitorious

[Turunen Tuukka]

On 18.12.2012 17.06, "Peter Hartmann" <phartmann at rim.com> wrote:

>On 12/18/2012 12:05 PM, Sean Harmer wrote:
>> (...)
>>> In case we decide to proceed with creation of a vendor branch, is it
>>> planned to be a temporary solution or something permanent?
>
>some months ago, I was confident that this would be something temporary;
>unfortunately, practice has shown that so far we always had a few
>commits (1-10) that we needed to "short-circuit" into our branch because
>some internal team needed a commit urgently (maybe people that have
>worked on the N9 remember that situation). So I don't expect that branch
>to go away anytime soon, to be honest.

Eventually we need to have a policy for these in the Qt Project. There are
thousands of different embedded devices being created, and gets hard if we
create branch for everyone.

I know that you are very busy now, so we do not need to decide this at the
moment. But it just something to plan going forward.

Yours,

                 Tuukka

>
>>
>> I suppose that entirely depends upon what gets committed there. The
>>general
>> idea is to keep this branch as the minimum set of patches needed for
>>this
>> platform that cannot be merged into the Qt mainline. Peter already
>>mentioned
>> one such patch.
>
>Yes, this is another reason why the branch will most likely not become
>redundant...
>
>Peter
>
>>
>> The case of expediting patches in this branch is to allow this to
>>happen in
>> the open in the spirit of the Qt project. Wherever possible the idea is
>>to
>> upstream the patches into the Qt mainline so that the vendor branch
>>remains as
>> close as possible to the official Qt Project version.
>>
>> Vladimir and Peter may have more to add of course.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Sean
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