[Development] Preparing to release repackaged version of Qt 4.8.3 with Digia copyrights

Stephen Kelly stephen.kelly at kdab.com
Fri Oct 5 14:38:25 CEST 2012


On Friday, October 05, 2012 08:11:25 Turunen Tuukka wrote:
> On 4.10.2012 17.42, "Rafael Roquetto" <rafael.roquetto at kdab.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 01:11:19PM +0000, Turunen Tuukka wrote:
> >> My preference is towards releasing now and making proper 4.8.4 (with
> >>
> >>more
> >>
> >> content) later. It is true that getting the security fix in is also
> >> valuable and then we certainly need to call it 4.8.4.
> >
> >And what do you think about going down that road, instead? As suggested,
> >you do not need to do the full release cycle. Would that work? I think
> >that
> >would make everyone happy.
> 
> It is true that there are many value adding improvements pending in the
> 4.8 branch - over 80 since 4.8.3.
> 
> So we will not release 4.8.3-1 with the new copyrights and MinGW fix as
> advised by many of you.
> 
> We will start work to make 4.8.4, which we should then be able to release
> in about two weeks. We will do that according to the defined release
> process of 4.8 in order not to cause confusion and reduce risk of
> regressions.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> 		Tuukka

Thanks for that,

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