[Development] Proposal: New list of Qt 5 reference / Tier 1 platforms

[Turunen Tuukka]

On 6.11.2012 23.02, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>
>The above looks fine. I'd just like to be clear that the reference
>platforms 
>are, generically:
> - Windows
> - Mac OS X
> - Linux (Wayland and X11)
>
>and that you're just being specific of what that means at this particular
>point 
>in time.

True. It is important to have the exact configuration clearly communicated
for each release. 


>Like above, generically speaking, tier 1 platforms are those that
>participate 
>in the release process, providing a good, usable release and, in
>addition, 
>have a team that commits to supporting it for a certain period of time.

It is very important to have the Tier 1 platforms in the CI (and vice
versa, as earlier discussed if it is not in a CI it should not be called a
Tier 1 platform). 

>
>Your list of criteria above is a good declination and a goal that we
>should 
>strive for. However, since right now no external platform can integrate
>with 
>the CI, I don't think it's fair to require it. So we should be able to
>list 
>certain platforms as Tier 1, provided they meet the other quality
>criteria, 
>even if they aren't in the CI.

We should be able to do some CI modifications still before the final
release, if that is what we want to do.

When possible, I would like us to support OS X 10.8, Windows 8 (desktop
mode) and Ubuntu 12.04 as Tier 1 platforms of Qt 5. All these seem to
work, but we need to have these in CI as well.

What comes to supporting Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.6 with Qt 5.0 I think
it is more important to support the new ones than these, because it is a
new major version.

>
>Specifically, I'm thinking of QNX and, in turn, wondering if the team
>behind it 
>is committed to the quality effort to Tier 1 in 5.0.

We have now created the CI system setup in such way that it is possible to
connect external platforms. It would be interesting to try this with QNX
for Qt 5.x.

Yours,

		Tuukka