[Development] Feature freeze and Alpha

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 2/7/12 6:53 AM, "ext Turunen Tuukka" <Tuukka.Turunen at digia.com> wrote:
>
>On 7.2.2012 8.48, "simo.falt at nokia.com" <simo.falt at nokia.com> wrote:
>>
>>On 2/5/12 4:12 PM, "ext lars.knoll at nokia.com" <lars.knoll at nokia.com>
>>wrote:
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>>>We also need to now create a team that focuses on creating packages out
>>>of
>>>our source code that we can then release. For the Alpha I propose that
>>>we
>>>only do source packages (great if we get binaries though), we will
>>>however
>>>need to prepare for creating binary packages for our reference platforms
>>>with the beta. I am looking for people who would like to participate in
>>>this process, please speak up if you are interested.
>>>
>>Feel free to count me in.

Great to see you guys stepping up!

>>To get the packaging stuff ongoing, would it make sense to set-up new
>>project for release engineering stuff, e.g. "releng". Dedicated mailing
>>list to coordinate that job might be useful too.
>
>I think it would be very good to have a separate list.
>
>There needs to be a channel via which the info is exchanged, and while
>getting the release out is in everybody's interest, there likely comes so
>much mails that it bloats the dev mailing list.

Yes, let's get that list going. releng is a bit cryptic, I'd propose
releasing at qt-project.org. Marius or Sergio, can you create the list,
please?

Thanks,
Lars