[Development] How to release critical fixes?

[shane.kearns at accenture.com]

Since the major/minor/patch release is encoded into QT_VERSION, critical releases should increment the patch number.
I suggest to use a short lived branch for just this release.

e.g.
check out previous patch release tag (e.g. v4.8.3)
create a branch from it
cherry pick the critical fix(es) onto the branch
cherry pick the QT_VERSION update to the branch
tag the head of the branch with the new release (e.g. v4.8.4)
close the branch
push a QT_VERSION update to the main branch (e.g. 4.8) to update the QT_VERSION to the next release (e.g. 4.8.5)

The git history would look something like this:
O
|
O-v4.8.3
|\
O O
| |
O O-v4.8.4
|
...
|
O-v4.8.5

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> On Behalf Of Rafael Roquetto
> Sent: 05 October 2012 15:33
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Development] How to release critical fixes?
>
> Hello all,
>
> Following the discussion concerning 4.8.3-1 vs 4.8.4, I think an
> important gap on the workflow has been exposed: how to release critical
> patches? I am not sure if this makes sense, since I am entirely not
> acquitanted to the entire release process, but would anyone have any
> suggestion or comments on how we could issue these exceptional releases
> that should only include highly critical fixes (i.e. the SSL one)?
> Feedback?
>
> Thanks,
> Rafael
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